Prenatal exposure to heat and humidity and infant birth size in Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies - primarily in high income countries - have shown that high prenatal temperatures are associated with adverse birth outcomes. However, these studies are mostly focused on average exposure across the full gestational period or short-term exposure immediately prior to delivery and may miss important sensitive windows of exposure in utero. Further, nearly all use ambient air temperature data, which neglect physiologically important interactions between air temperature and humidity. The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) recruited pregnant individuals from 2013 to 2015 from communities in the Kintampo North Municipality and Kintampo South District of Ghana. We estimated daily maximum shaded wet bulb globe temperature (WBGTmax) and heat index (HImax) durin

SUBMITTER: Reddam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11809779 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature