Air pollution exposure during pregnancy: maternal asthma and neonatal respiratory outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Maternal asthma increases adverse neonatal respiratory outcomes, and pollution may further increase risk. Air quality in relation to neonatal respiratory health has not been studied.

Methods

Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN), asphyxia, and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) were identified using medical records among 223,375 singletons from the Consortium on Safe Labor (2002-2008). Community Multiscale Air Quality models estimated pollutant exposures. Multipollutant Poisson regression models calculated adjusted relative risks of outcomes for interquartile range increases in average exposure. Maternal asthma and preterm delivery were evaluated as effect modifiers.

Results

TTN risk increased after particulate matter (PM) less than or equal to 10-micron e

SUBMITTER: Seeni I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232679 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature