2025
Heat Waves and Early Birth: Exploring Vulnerability by Individual‐ and Area‐Level Factors
Fitch A, Huang M, Strickland M, Newman A, Kalb C, Warren J, Kelley S, Zheng X, Chang H, Darrow L. Heat Waves and Early Birth: Exploring Vulnerability by Individual‐ and Area‐Level Factors. GeoHealth 2025, 9: e2025gh001348. PMID: 40271078, PMCID: PMC12015208, DOI: 10.1029/2025gh001348.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchZip code tabulation areasArea-level factorsEarly term birthSocial deprivationSocial deprivation indexHigh social deprivationTerm birthsCase-crossover designState vital recordsInverse-variance weightingDeprivation indexSocioeconomic disadvantageHealth outcomesMaternal residenceHeat wave exposureMaternal educationVital recordsExposure windowsOdds ratioArea levelIndividual-levelMaternal ageBirth riskPositive associationSchool educationA time-to-event analysis of the association between ambient air pollution and risk of spontaneous abortion using vital records in the U.S. state of Georgia (2005-2014)
Hsiao T, Gaskins A, Warren J, Darrow L, Strickland M, Russell A, Chang H. A time-to-event analysis of the association between ambient air pollution and risk of spontaneous abortion using vital records in the U.S. state of Georgia (2005-2014). American Journal Of Epidemiology 2025, kwaf019. PMID: 39894759, DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaf019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHazard ratioElemental carbonAmbient air pollution exposurePrenatal exposure windowsExposure to traffic-related pollutionResidential census tractsOrganic carbonEstimate hazard ratiosFetal death recordsRisk of spontaneous abortionAir pollution exposureElevated hazard ratiosAmbient air pollutionTraffic-related pollutantsNitrogen oxidesAir pollution regulationsResidential countyU.S. state of GeorgiaDeath recordsVital recordsCensus tractsTime-to-event analysisExposure windowsPollution exposureDaily concentrations
2023
Associations between weekly gestational exposure of fine particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide and preterm birth in a North Carolina Birth Cohort, 2003–2015
Krajewski A, Luben T, Warren J, Rappazzo K. Associations between weekly gestational exposure of fine particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide and preterm birth in a North Carolina Birth Cohort, 2003–2015. Environmental Epidemiology 2023, 7: e278. PMID: 38912391, PMCID: PMC11189686, DOI: 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000278.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPreterm birthGestational exposureWeeks of pregnancyRisk of PTBInterquartile range increasePM 2.5 exposurePoisson regression modelsGestational weeksPotential confoundersFine particulate matterAssociation magnitudeRisk differenceNull associationBirth cohortExposure windowsResidential addressesMultipollutant modelsBirthWeeksPositive associationAssociationExposurePM 2.5Regression modelsCensus tracts
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