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Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Selected Birth Defects in the San Joaquin Valley of California
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Sep 23 2013
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Source: Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2013; 97(11):730-735.
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Alternative Title:Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol
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Description: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.
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Pubmed ID:24108522
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC4264633
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Volume:97
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Issue:11
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