Modeling spatially varying compliance effects of PM_2.5 exposure reductions on gestational diabetes mellitus in southern California: Results from electronic health record data of a large pregnancy cohort.

ABSTRACT: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a major pregnancy complication affecting approximately 14.0% of pregnancies around the world. Air pollution exposure, particularly exposure to PM_2.5, has become a major environmental issue affecting health, especially for vulnerable pregnant women. Associations between PM_2.5 exposure and adverse birth outcomes are generally assumed to be the same throughout a large geographical area. However, the effects of air pollution on health can very spatially in subpopulations. Such spatially varying effects are likely due to a wide range of contextual neighborhood and individual factors that are spatially correlated, including SES, demographics, exposure to housing characteristics and due to different composition of particulate matter fro

SUBMITTER: Molitor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10405446 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature