Association between prenatal exposure to ambient ozone, birth weight, and macrosomia in healthy women.

ABSTRACT: Studies have shown that prenatal ozone exposure is associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, among which abnormal birth weight is a detrimental factor for diseases in adulthood, but the association between birth weight and ozone is inconclusive. Herein, we conducted this study by enrolling 407 couples of pregnant women and collected their demographical materials, their exposure to ambient ozone was assessed according to the place of their residence. The hourly monitored ozone was first averaged to the daily level, then monthly and whole-gestationally levels. After adjusting confounders, we processed a multivariate generalized addictive analysis to predict the association between prenatal ozone exposure and birth weight. We also divided the cohort into two categories

SUBMITTER: Zheng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676959 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature