Open fire exposure increases the risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia.
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SUBMITTER: Xue T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8163851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
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Open fire exposure increases the risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia.
Xue Tao T Geng Guannan G Han Yiqun Y Wang Huiyu H Li Jiajianghui J Li Hong-Tian HT Zhou Yubo Y Zhu Tong T
Nature communications 20210528 1
Interactions between climate change and anthropogenic activities result in increasing numbers of open fires, which have been shown to harm maternal health. However, few studies have examined the association between open fire and pregnancy loss. We conduct a self-comparison case-control study including 24,876 mothers from South Asia, the region with the heaviest pregnancy-loss burden in the world. Exposure is assessed using a chemical transport model as the concentrations of fire-sourced PM<sub>2 ...[more]
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