Miscarriage matters: the epidemiological, physical, psychological, and economic costs of early pregnancy loss

S Quenby, ID Gallos, RK Dhillon-Smith, M Podesek… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Miscarriage is generally defined as the loss of a pregnancy before viability. An estimated 23
million miscarriages occur every year worldwide, translating to 44 pregnancy losses each …

Association of air pollution and heat exposure with preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth in the US: a systematic review

B Bekkar, S Pacheco, R Basu, N DeNicola - JAMA network open, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Knowledge of whether serious adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated
with increasingly widespread effects of climate change in the US would be crucial for the …

[HTML][HTML] Ambient and household PM2. 5 pollution and adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta-regression and analysis of attributable global burden for 204 countries and …

R Ghosh, K Causey, K Burkart, S Wozniak… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Particulate matter< 2.5 micrometer (PM2. 5) is associated with adverse
perinatal outcomes, but the impact on disease burden mediated by this pathway has not …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal exposure to ambient black carbon particles and their presence in maternal and fetal circulation and organs: an analysis of two independent …

E Bongaerts, LL Lecante, H Bové… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Maternal exposure to particulate air pollution during pregnancy has been linked
to multiple adverse birth outcomes causing burden of disease later in the child's life. To date …

Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: car sick

MR Miller, DE Newby - Cardiovascular research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The cardiovascular effects of inhaled particle matter (PM) are responsible for a substantial
morbidity and mortality attributed to air pollution. Ultrafine particles, like those in diesel …

Ambient air pollution and pregnancy outcomes: a comprehensive review and identification of environmental public health challenges

P Klepac, I Locatelli, S Korošec, N Künzli… - Environmental research, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a growing number of studies on the association between ambient air pollution and
adverse pregnancy outcomes, but their results have been inconsistent. Consequently, a …

Robust relationship between air quality and infant mortality in Africa

S Heft-Neal, J Burney, E Bendavid, M Burke - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Poor air quality is thought to be an important mortality risk factor globally,–, but there is little
direct evidence from the developing world on how mortality risk varies with changing …

Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: an umbrella review of 36 systematic reviews and meta-analyses

SD Nyadanu, J Dunne, GA Tessema, B Mullins… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple systematic reviews and meta-analyses linked prenatal exposure to ambient air
pollutants to adverse birth outcomes with mixed findings, including results indicating …

Environmental exposure during pregnancy: influence on prenatal development and early life: a comprehensive review

MD Gómez-Roig, R Pascal, MJ Cahuana… - Fetal diagnosis and …, 2021 - karger.com
Preconception and prenatal exposure to environmental contaminants may affect future
health. Pregnancy and early life are critical sensitive windows of susceptibility. The aim of …

Epidemiology of late preterm and early term births–An international perspective

M Delnord, J Zeitlin - Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Late preterm (34–36 weeks of gestational age (GA)), and early term (37–38 weeks
GA) birth rates among singleton live births vary from 3% to 6% and from 15% to 31 …