The impacts of air pollution on maternal stress during pregnancy.

ABSTRACT: To investigate the association of air pollution with maternal stress during pregnancy, we enrolled 1,931 women during mid-to-late pregnancy in Shanghai in 2010. The "Life-Event Scale for Pregnant Women" and "Symptom-Checklist-90-Revised Scale" (SCL-90-R) were used to evaluate life event stress and emotional stress, respectively. Air pollution data were collected for each district where pregnant women lived during pregnancy. We associated ambient air pollution with stress scores using multivariable logistic regression models. After adjusting for relevant covariates, an interquartile-range (IQR) increase in sulphur-dioxide (SO₂) (OR = 1.30, 95% CI: 1.11-1.52) and particulate-matter with an aerodynamic-diameter <10 μm (PM₁₀) (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.02-1.34) concentrations

SUBMITTER: Lin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5241869 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature