Congenital anomalies associated with oil and gas development and resource extraction: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Texas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oil and gas extraction-related activities produce air and water pollution that contains known and suspected teratogens. To date, health impacts of in utero exposure to these activities is largely unknown.

Objective

We investigated associations between in utero exposure to oil and gas extraction activity in Texas, one of the highest producers of oil and gas, and congenital anomalies.

Methods

We created a population-based birth cohort between 1999 and 2009 with full maternal address at delivery and linked to the statewide congenital anomaly surveillance system (n = 2,234,138 births, 86,315 cases). We examined extraction-related exposures using tertiles of inverse distance-squared weighting within 5 km for drilling site count, gas production, oil production, a

SUBMITTER: Willis MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9852077 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature