Prenatal exposure to criteria air pollutants and associations with congenital anomalies: A Lebanese national study.
Air pollution
Congenital anomalies
Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)
Machine learning
Neonatal health
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Jul 2021
15 Jul 2021
Historique:
received:
20
08
2020
revised:
19
02
2021
accepted:
22
03
2021
pubmed:
5
4
2021
medline:
2
6
2021
entrez:
4
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Maternal exposure to air pollution has been associated with a higher birth defect (BD) risk. Previous studies suffer from inaccurate exposure assessment methods, confounding individual-level variations, and classical analytical modelling. This study aimed to examine the association between maternal exposure to criteria air pollutants and BD risk. A total of 553 cases and 10,214 controls were identified from private and public databases. Two subgroups were then formed: one for a matched case-control design, and another for Feature Selection (FS) analysis. Exposure assessment was based on the mean air pollutant-specific levels in the mother's residential area during the specific BD gestational time window of risk (GTWR) and other time intervals. Multivariate regression models outcomes consistently showed a significant protective effect for folic acid intake and highlighted parental consanguinity as a strong BD risk factor. After adjusting for these putative risk factors and other covariates, results show that maternal exposure to PM
Identifiants
pubmed: 33813197
pii: S0269-7491(21)00604-7
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117022
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants
0
Particulate Matter
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
117022Informations de copyright
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