Title
Association between maternal exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Lima, Peru
Date Issued
01 July 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
The literature shows associations between maternal exposures to PM2.5 and adverse pregnancy outcomes. There are few data from Latin America. We have examined PM2.5 and pregnancy outcomes in Lima. The study included 123,034 births from 2012 to 2016, at three public hospitals. We used estimated daily PM2.5 from a newly created model developed using ground measurements, satellite data, and a chemical transport model. Exposure was assigned based on district of residence (n = 39). Linear and logistic regression analyzes were used to estimate the associations between air pollution exposure and pregnancy outcomes. Increased exposure to PM2.5 during the entire pregnancy and in the first trimester was inversely associated with birth weight. We found a decrease of 8.13 g (−14.0; −1.84) overall and 18.6 g (−24.4, −12.8) in the first trimester, for an interquartile range (IQR) increase (9.2 µg/m3) in PM2.5. PM2.5 exposure was positively associated with low birth weight at term (TLBW) during entire pregnancy (OR: 1.11; 95% CI: 1.03–1.20), and at the first (OR: 1.11; 95% CI: 1.03–1.20), second (OR: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.01–1.17), and third trimester (OR: 1.10; 95% CI: 1.02–1.18) per IQR (9.2 µg/m3) increase. Higher exposure to PM2.5 was also associated with increased risk of small for gestational age (SGA). There were no statistically significant associations between PM2.5 exposure and preterm births (PTB). Exposure to higher concentrations of PM2.5 in Lima may decrease birth weight and increase the frequency of TLBW and SGA. Our study was inconsistent with the literature in finding no associations with preterm birth.
Start page
689
End page
697
Volume
30
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084207503
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
ISSN of the container
15590631
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements Research reported in this publication was supported by the NIH Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) R01ES018845, R01ES018845-S1, National Cancer Institute, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the NIH under Award Number U01 TW0101 07. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors than the directors of the three hospitals for providing us with their data, and thank Diego Fano and Cynthia Gonzales for helping in data collection and translation.
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