Maternal exposure to metals and time‐to‐pregnancy: The MIREC cohort study
Priya Premranjith,
Will King,
Jillian Ashley‐Martin
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveTo study the association between maternal exposure to arsenic, cadmium, lead, manganese and mercury, time‐to‐pregnancy (TTP) and infertility.DesignPregnancy‐based retrospective TTP cohort study.SettingHospitals and clinics from ten cities across Canada.PopulationA total of 1784 pregnant women.MethodsConcentrations of arsenic, cadmium, lead, manganese and mercury were measured in maternal whole blood during the first trimester of pregnancy as a proxy of preconception exposure. Discrete‐time Cox proport… Show more
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