Zhengmin Qian, Bin Zhang, Shengwen Liang, Jing Wang, Shaoping Yang, Ke Hu, Edwin Trevathan, Rong Yang, Qijie Li, Louise H Flick, Ronghua Hu, Zhen Huang, Yimin Zhang, Shixiang Hu, Jing Wang, Longjiao Shen, Yuan Lu, Hui Peng, Yuzhen Yu, Li Yang, Wei Chen, Wenjin Liu, Wei Zhang
Background: Several recent studies have suggested that maternal exposures to air pollution and temperature extremes might contribute to low birth weight (LBW), preterm birth (PTB), and other outcomes that can adversely affect infant health. At the time the current study began, most other studies had been conducted in the United States or Europe. Dr. Zhengmin Qian proposed to extend work he had done on ambient particulate air pollution and daily mortality in Wuhan, China (Qian et al. 2010), as part of the HEIsponsored Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia program, to study adverse birth outcomes...
September 2016: Research Report (Res Rep Health Eff Inst)