Acute air pollution exposure and NICU admission: a case-crossover analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission rates have increased over time. Air pollution is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, but the relationship between prenatal air pollution exposure and NICU admission has not been investigated.

Methods

In the Consortium on Safe Labor (2002-2008), 27,189 singletons were admitted to the NICU. Modified Community Multiscale Air Quality models estimated exposures for criteria air pollutants and constituents of particles less than or equal to 2.5 microns (PM_2.5). Case-crossover analyses calculated odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for interquartile range increases in pollutant exposure, comparing exposures during the week of delivery to control periods before and after delivery.

Results

In models

SUBMITTER: Seeni I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755057 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature