Maternal ambient air pollution exposure with spatial-temporal variations and preterm birth risk assessment during 2013–2017 in Zhejiang Province, China

Internal metal(loid)s are potentially involved in the association between ambient fine particulate matter and blood pressure: A repeated-measurement study in north China

“…The average outdoor PM 2.5 concentration over the ve visits was > 100 µg/m 3 , which is signi cantly higher than the national annual standard of 75 µg/m 3 in China. Furthermore, this concentration is higher than concentrations observed in other provinces in China, as well as concentrations observed in the USA, Brazil, and the Netherlands [27,28,29,30,31,32]. We found that PM 2.5 was positively associated with both systolic and diastolic blood pressures after adjustments for the main confounders, with or without including ambient temperature.…”

Reduction in preterm births during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a natural experiment allowing analysis of data from the prior two decades

“…25 PTB through significant neonatal morbidity also leads to long-term health concerns during childhood. 26 A myriad of etiologic and antecedent factors could trigger PTB and the effectiveness of preventive measures depends on our precise understanding of the causation. 10 A pan-European study found rising PTB rates in most countries and an increase in multiple births as well as assisted reproduction techniques (ART) also contributed to the overall increase.…”

“…46 Association between ambient air pollution (AAP) exposure during pregnancy and PTB has been reported. 26,47,48 Particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and carbon monoxide were the most commonly used markers of AAP. 47,48 Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) was the largest contributor to increase PTB and other agents were particulate matter (PM) 2.5 micron , PM 10 micron and NO 2 .…”

Air pollution impacts from COVID-19 pandemic control strategies in Malaysia

“…Anthropogenic air pollutants are of concern to human health, especially in urban areas where economic activities and rapid industrialization are associated with poor air pollution. Studies on air pollution and human health have been performed in order to explore links between air pollution and human health in terms of toxicity effects ( Hanedar et al., 2013 ), DNA damage ( Kalemba-Drozdz, 2015 ), reduced lung function ( Panis et al., 2017 ), preterm delivery for pregnant women ( Sun et al., 2019 ), mutagenic effects ( Feretti et al., 2019 ), mortality and morbidity ( Giallouros et al., 2020 ; Sarnat et al., 2008 ) and cardiopulmonary disease ( Wang et al., 2018 ). There are also links between elevated risk of hospital admissions and severe air pollution episodes which indicates the crucial relationship between air pollution and human health.…”