Young-Ah You, Sunwha Park, Eunjin Kwon, Ye-Ah Kim, Young Min Hur, Ga In Lee, Soo Min Kim, Jeong Min Song, Man S Kim, Young Ju Kim, Young-Han Kim, Sung Hun Na, Mi Hye Park, Jin-Gon Bae, Geum Joon Cho, Soo-Jeong Lee
Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ) is associated with adverse pregnancy and neonatal health outcomes. To explore the mechanism, we performed mRNA sequencing of neonatal cord blood. From an ongoing prospective cohort, Air Pollution on Pregnancy Outcome (APPO) study, 454 pregnant women from six centers between January 2021 and June 2022 were recruited. Individual PM2.5 exposure was calculated using a time-weighted average model. In the APPO study, age-matched cord blood samples from the High PM2...
January 10, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International