Prenatal Exposure to Ambient PM_2.5 and Early Childhood Growth Impairment Risk in East Africa.

ABSTRACT: Height for age is an important and widely used population-level indicator of children's health. Morbidity trends show that stunting in young children is a significant public health concern. Recent studies point to environmental factors as an understudied area of child growth failure in Africa. Data on child measurements of height-for-age and confounders were obtained from fifteen waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for six countries in East Africa. Monthly ambient PM_2.5 concentration data was retrieved from the Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group (ACAG) global surface PM_2.5 estimates and spatially integrated with DHS data. Generalized additive models with linear and logistic regression were used to estimate the exposure-response relationship between p

SUBMITTER: Clarke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9699051 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature