Air pollution, neighborhood acculturation factors, and neural tube defects among Hispanic women in California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are one of the most common types of birth defects. Environmental pollutants and acculturation have been associated with NTDs independently. The potential effect modification of acculturation in the relationship between ambient air pollution and risks of NTDs is not well understood.

Methods

We investigated whether associations between traffic-related air pollutant exposure in early gestation and NTDs, and more specifically spina bifida, were modified by individual and neighborhood acculturation factors among 139 cases and 466 controls born in the San Joaquin Valley of California, 1997 to 2006. Five criteria pollutant exposures in tertiles, two outcomes, and seven neighborhood acculturation factors from the U.S. Census at the block group l

SUBMITTER: Padula AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773251 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature