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 …

Combined impacts of prenatal environmental exposures and psychosocial stress on offspring health: air pollution and metals

AM Padula, Z Rivera-Núñez, ES Barrett - Current environmental health …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Pregnant women and their offspring are vulnerable to the
adverse effects of environmental and psychosocial stressors, individually and in …

Racial and ethnic disparities in mode of anesthesia for cesarean delivery

AJ Butwick, YJ Blumenfeld, KF Brookfield… - Anesthesia & …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Racial and ethnic disparities have been identified in the provision of
neuraxial labor analgesia. These disparities may exist in other key aspects of obstetric …

Disparities in toxic chemical exposures and associated neurodevelopmental outcomes: a scoping review and systematic evidence map of the epidemiological …

DC Payne-Sturges, TK Taiwo, K Ellickson… - Environmental …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Children are routinely exposed to chemicals known or suspected of harming
brain development. Targeting Environmental Neuro-Development Risks (Project TENDR) …

Cumulative impact of environmental pollution and population vulnerability on pediatric asthma hospitalizations: A multilevel analysis of CalEnviroScreen

E Alcala, P Brown, JA Capitman, M Gonzalez… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The CalEnviroScreen created by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment,
Sacramento, USA, is a place-based dataset developed to measure environmental and …

Methods for evaluating the combined effects of chemical and nonchemical exposures for cumulative environmental health risk assessment

DC Payne-Sturges, MK Scammell, JI Levy… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cumulative risk assessment (CRA) has been proposed as a means of evaluating possible
additive and synergistic effects of multiple chemical, physical and social stressors on human …

Health care access, concentrated poverty, and pediatric asthma hospital care use in California's San Joaquin Valley: A multilevel approach

E Alcala, R Cisneros, JA Capitman - Journal of Asthma, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: California's San Joaquin Valley is a region with a history of
poverty, low health care access, and high rates of pediatric asthma. It is important to …

Joint impact of synthetic chemical and non-chemical stressors on children's health

ES Barrett, AM Padula - Current environmental health reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Pregnant women are exposed to numerous synthetic chemicals
(eg, pesticides, phthalates, polychlorinated biphenyls) in their daily lives as well as a range …

Elevated ambient temperatures and risk of neural tube defects

N Auger, WD Fraser, L Arbour… - Occupational and …, 2017 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives The association between ambient heat and neural tube defects has received
limited attention, despite imminent climate warming this century. We sought to determine the …

Air pollution, neighborhood deprivation, and autism spectrum disorder in the Study to Explore Early Development

LA McGuinn, GC Windham, LC Messer… - Environmental …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: To examine whether neighborhood deprivation modifies the association
between early life air pollution exposure and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we used …