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Alternative Title:
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdra.23175
Personal Author:
Padula, Amy M. ; Tager, Ira B. ; Carmichael, Suzan L. ; Hammond, S. Katharine ; Yang, Wei ; ... More +
Padula, Amy M. ; Tager, Ira B. ; Carmichael, Suzan L. ; Hammond, S. Katharine ; Yang, Wei ; Lurmann, Frederick W. ; Shaw, Gary M. Less -
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BACKGROUND

Birth defects are a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Studies suggest associations between environmental contaminants and some structural anomalies, although evidence is limited and several anomalies have not been investigated previously.

METHODS

We used data from the California Center of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study and the Children's Health and Air Pollution Study to estimate the odds of 26 congenital birth defect phenotypes with respect to quartiles of seven ambient air pollutant and traffic exposures in California during the first 2 months of pregnancy, 1997 to 2006 (874 cases and 849 controls). We calculated odds ratios (adjusted for maternal race/ethnicity, education, and vitamin use; aOR) for 11 phenotypes that had at least 40 cases.

RESULTS

Few odds ratios had confidence intervals that did not include 1.0. Odds of esophageal atresia were increased for the highest versus lowest of traffic density (aOR = 2.8, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1–7.4) and PM10 exposure (aOR 4.9; 95% CI, 1.4–17.2). PM10 was associated with a decreased risk of hydrocephaly (aOR= 0.3; 95% CI, 0.1–0.9) and CO with decreased risk of anotia/microtia (aOR = 0.4; 95% CI, 0.2–0.8) and transverse limb deficiency (aOR = 0.4; 95% CI, 0.2–0.9), again reflecting highest versus lowest quartile comparisons.

CONCLUSION

Most analyses showed no substantive association between air pollution and the selected birth defects with few exceptions of mixed results.


Subject:
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Adult
Air Pollutants
Air Pollution
Article
Congenital Abnormalities
Congenital Microtia
Ear
Female
Humans
Hydrocephalus
Maternal Exposure
Pregnancy
Retrospective Studies

Source:
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2013; 97(11):730-735.
Pubmed ID:
24108522
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4264633
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
L40 ES023163/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; P20 ES018173/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U01 DD000489/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States
L40 ES023163/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; P20 ES018173/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U01 DD000489/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
California
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:f8468e26c0f94e98879c6570f935940d492840c94f39b7a9ea606a1143722cee
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