Traffic-related Air Pollution and Pregnancy Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traffic-related air pollution has been linked to multiple adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, few studies have examined pregnancy loss, targeting losses identified by hospital records, a large limitation as it does not capture events not reported to the medical system.

Methods

We used a novel variation of the time-series design to determine the association, and identify the critical window of vulnerability, between week-to-week traffic-related air pollution and conceptions resulting in live births, using nitrogen dioxide (NO2) as a traffic emissions tracer. We used information from all live births recorded at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA (2000-2013) and all live births in Tel Aviv District, Israel (2010-2013).

Results

In Boston (68,96

SUBMITTER: Kioumourtzoglou MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269216 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature