Air Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes

摘要: Children born with low birth weight, preterm, or fetal growth restriction may suffer from significant short and long term morbidity mortality, making adverse pregnancy outcomes a major public health concern health, social, economic consequences for families, communities, the nation. Despite aggressive heath campaigns, racial geographic disparities in persist. Disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards partially account such disparities. In this chapter, we synthesize existing literature connecting air pollution exposures outcomes. We begin by providing readers background on outcomes, including their documented Next, summarize research systematic review, describing state of knowledge regarding associations between each outcome key pollutants. While scientific clearly points detrimental association maternal does not yet provide consensus understanding details association. Thus, describe methodological barriers inconsistencies that make interpretation across studies challenging, noting why these issues arise, how they impact results, be addressed. Acknowledging challenges need additional research, chapter highlights clear evidence negative Future work addressing and, perhaps most importantly, identifying causal pathways, is critical establishing appropriate regulatory policy protecting infant health.