Impact of ambient temperature on adverse pregnancy outcomes: a birth cohort study in Fuzhou, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have identified a series of specific adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) linked with temperature extremes. Most of them focus on preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth. Other possible adverse outcomes were under-researched. This study aimed to investigate the impact of ambient temperature on maternal complications, white blood cell count (WBC), newborn hearing, and neonatal jaundice.

Methods

A total of 418 participants were recruited from Fuzhou Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital in 2016. Participants were invited to fill out a structured questionnaire. The gridded near-surface air temperatures at a resolution of 0.1°* 0.1° for Fuzhou were extracted from a published dataset. Meteorological data and PM_2.5 were extracted based o

SUBMITTER: Lin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359494 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature