Differential association of air pollution exposure with neonatal and postneonatal mortality in England and Wales: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many but not all studies suggest an association between air pollution exposure and infant mortality. We sought to investigate whether pollution exposure is differentially associated with all-cause neonatal or postneonatal mortality, or specific causes of infant mortality.

Methods and findings

We separately investigated the associations of exposure to particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) with all-cause infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality, and with specific causes of infant deaths in 7,984,366 live births between 2001 and 2012 in England and Wales. Overall, 51.3% of the live births were male, and there were 36,485 infant deaths (25,110 neonatal deaths and 11,375 postneonatal deaths).

SUBMITTER: Kotecha SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575080 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature