Impact of air pollution and temperature on adverse birth outcomes: Madrid, 2001–2009

Arroyo, Virginia; Díaz, Julio; Carmona, Rocı́o; Ortíz, Cristina; Linares, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.08.069

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“…Inverse distance weighting (IDW) method was adopted to estimate concentrations for air pollutants at each subject's home and work address using ArcGIS version 10.2 (ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA) [36], and personal air pollutant exposure levels were calculated by combining exposures at both home and work using a timeweighted approach [37], which has been described in detail in our previous study [32]. Daily means of temperature data were measured by one central-site monitoring station and without using any exposure assessment model, these were then assumed to be the exposure values of subjects residing in this area across the study period [38]. Then, maternal weekly average exposure concentrations corresponding to every gestational week were calculated using daily estimated air pollutant concentrations and temperature values from the above.…”

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Associations between maternal weekly air pollutant exposures and low birth weight: a distributed lag non-linear model

Jiang

Zhu

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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When discussing the association between birth weight and air pollution, previous studies mainly focus on the maternal trimester-specific exposures during pregnancy, whereas the possible associations between birth weight and weekly-specific exposures have been largely neglected. We conducted a nested 1:4 matched case-control study in Jinan, China to examine the weekly-specific associations during pregnancy between maternal fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 m, PM 2.5 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) exposure and birth weight, which is under a representative scenario of very high pollution levels. Ambient air monitoring data from thirteen monitoring stations and daily mean temperature data for Jinan during 2013-2016 were continuously collected. Birth data were obtained from the largest maternity and child care hospital of this city during 2014-2016. Individual exposures to PM 2.5 , NO 2 , and SO 2 during pregnancy were estimated using an inverse distance weighting method. Birth weight for gender-, gestational age-, and parity-specific standard score (BWGAP z-score) was calculated as the outcome of interest. Distributed lag non-linear models (DLNMs) were applied to estimate weekly-specific relationship between maternal air pollutant exposures and birth weight. For an increase of per inter-quartile range in maternal PM 2.5 exposure concentration during pregnancy, the BWGAP z-score decreased significantly during the 27th-33th gestational weeks with the strongest association in the 30th gestational weeks (standard deviation units decrease in BWGAP z-score: −0.049, 95% CI: −0.080 −0.017, in three-pollutant model). No significant association between maternal weekly NO 2 or SO 2 BWGAP z-score was observed. In conclusion, this study provides evidence that maternal PM 2.5 exposure during the 27th-33th gestational weeks may reduce the birth weight in the context of very high pollution level of PM 2.5 .

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Section: Air Pollutant Exposure Assessmentmentioning

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Associations between maternal weekly air pollutant exposures and low birth weight: a distributed lag non-linear model

Jiang

Zhu

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Prenatal development is influenced by a complex set of conditions, such as medical, climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic changes (Feldman et al 2000;Hanke et al 2001;Beeckman et al 2009;Strand et al 2011;Arroyo et al 2016). Therefore, it is crucial that the norms (and consequently percentile charts) used must be representative of the population to which they are applied.…”

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A need for an update of Polish birth weight reference norms

Hadada¹,

Kosińska²

2020

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The indicators of perinatal outcome are birth weight and gestational age. The standard method of assessing the outcome is comparing the newborn’s birth weight with the reference system, presented in the form of percentile charts. Acceleration or delay in prenatal development, which are associated with environmental changes, stress the need to validate the developmental norms. The goal of this study is to evaluate the need to construct new and accurate reference standards. The study includes data of newborns from singleton pregnancies: 4919 born in 2000 and 3683 born in 2015. Study variables included gestational age, sex, and birth weight. Percentile values estimated for two groups of infants born in years separated by a 15-year period, born in 2000 and in 2015, were compared. Birth weight percentiles, from the 28th to the 42nd week of gestation, were calculated using the Lambda Mu Sigma method. Estimated values revealed the birth weight standards in different weeks of gestational age for both years: 2000 and 2015. Comparison among medians estimated for infants born in these years showed the existence of significant differences among boys in the 28th, 36th, and 39th weeks and among girls in the 34th and 41st weeks of gestational age. As the period between the two measurements involves several years, environmental changes during this time period might have significantly affected the course of pregnancy and thus the birth weight. Hence, there is a need to validate the developmental norms. The reference standards should be renewed, and must be done on a periodical basis.

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“…Douglas and colleagues also reported more sudden infant deaths in winter than summer [18]. Additionally, Arroyo and colleagues described that pollutant concentrations, noise, and temperature influenced the weekly average number of newborns with low birthweight [19].…”

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Seasonal variation in childhood mortality

Nyári

McNally

2019

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

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Aim: This ecological study was carried out to determine the cyclic trends in the rate of perinatal and infant mortality and among children aged under 15 years who died in traffic accidents or from drowning, respiratory disease or cancer. Methods: Monthly data on the numbers of live births, perinatal and infant deaths, and deaths from respiratory disease, cancer, traffic accidents, accidental drowning, and submersion in children aged under 15 years were obtained from the Hungarian nationwide population register. The data were aggregated over the study period and cyclic trends were investigated using the Walter-Elwood and negative binomial regression methods.

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Impact of air pollution and temperature on adverse birth outcomes: Madrid, 2001–2009

Cited by 85 publications

References 57 publications

Associations between maternal weekly air pollutant exposures and low birth weight: a distributed lag non-linear model

Associations between maternal weekly air pollutant exposures and low birth weight: a distributed lag non-linear model

A need for an update of Polish birth weight reference norms

Seasonal variation in childhood mortality

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