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Environmental exposures in pregnancy

 

Australia

• Fertility Society of Australia
  • The effects of environmental chemicals on fertility and fecundity [2021]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Guide to Pregnancy and Work [2017]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Ionizing Radiation in Pregnant Women: A Review of the Safety and Guidelines [2015]

• Environmental Health
  • Prenatal exposure to legacy contaminants and visual acuity in Canadian infants: a maternal-infant research on environmental chemicals study (MIREC-ID) [2020]

• New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
  • A Critique of Risk Disclosure as the Solution for Minimizing Toxic Exposures in Pregnancy: The Case of Nail Salon Workers [2017]

China

• Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Maternal exposure to O3 and NO2 may increase the risk of newborn congenital hypothyroidism: a national data-based analysis in China [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Patterns and Determinants of Essential and Toxic Elements in Chinese Women at Mid-Pregnancy, Late Pregnancy, and Lactation [2021]

Costa Rica

• International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Prenatal pesticide exposure and respiratory health outcomes in the first year of life: Results from the Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study [2020]

Denmark

• Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Prenatal Exposure to Nitrate from Drinking Water and Markers of Fetal Growth Restriction: A Population-Based Study of Nearly One Million Danish-Born Children [2021]

Europe

• Environment International
  • Early-life environmental exposure determinants of child behavior in Europe: A longitudinal, population-based study [2021]
  • Prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution and emotional and aggressive symptoms in children from 8 European birth cohorts [2019]

• Environmental Health Perspectives
  • European Birth Cohorts for Environmental Health Research [2012]

• European Society of Cardiology
  • Occupational radiation exposure in the electrophysiology laboratory with a focus on personnel with reproductive potential and during pregnancy: A European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) consensus document endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) [2017]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Intrauterine Exposures and Maternal Health Status during Pregnancy in Relation to Later Child Health: A Review of Pregnancy Cohort Studies in Europe [2021]
  • Adverse Birth Outcomes Related to NO2 and PM Exposure: European Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]

• Science of The Total Environment
  • Prenatal exposure to a wide range of environmental chemicals and child behaviour between 3 and 7 years of age – An exposome-based approach in 5 European cohorts [2021]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Mercury and human health [2021]

France

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Maternal Ambient Exposure to Atmospheric Pollutants during Pregnancy and Offspring Term Birth Weight in the Nationwide ELFE Cohort [2021]

Germany

• RöFo
  • Prenatal radiation exposure in diagnostic and interventional radiology [2021]

International

• Aging
  • Association between prenatal air pollution exposure and risk of hypospadias in offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies [2021]

• BMJ
  • Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Association of BPA exposure during pregnancy with risk of preterm birth and changes in gestational age: A meta-analysis and systematic review [2021]

• Environment International
  • Wildfire exposure during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review [2021]
  • Gestational triclosan exposure and infant birth weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Phthalate exposure and female reproductive and developmental outcomes: a systematic review of the human epidemiological evidence [2019]

• Epidemiologia e Prevenzione
  • Environmental and individual exposure and the risk of congenital anomalies: a review of recent epidemiological evidence [2018]

• Human Reproduction
  • Congenital anomalies in the offspring of occupationally exposed mothers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using expert assessment for occupational exposures [2019]

• Intergrowth-21st
  • A rapid questionnaire assessment of environmental exposures to pregnant women in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project [2013]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals [2015]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Environmental Toxicants and Preterm Birth: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Output [2022]
  • Prenatal Environmental Metal Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Scoping Review [2021]
  • Early-Life Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Available Evidence [2021]
  • In Utero Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution during Pregnancy: Impact on Birth Weight and Health through the Life Course [2020]
  • WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Adverse Birth Outcomes [2017]

• Nutrients
  • A Systematic Review of Bisphenol A from Dietary and Non-Dietary Sources during Pregnancy and Its Possible Connection with Fetal Growth Restriction: Investigating Its Potential Effects and the Window of Fetal Vulnerability [2021]

• Reproductive Toxicology
  • Heightened Susceptibility: A Review of How Pregnancy and Chemical Exposures Influence Maternal Health [2020]

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Air pollution and pregnancy outcomes based on exposure evaluation using a land use regression model: A systematic review [2021]

Italy

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Association between Exposure to Particulate Matter during Pregnancy and Multidimensional Development in School-Age Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Italy [2021]

Japan

• Environment International
  • Exposure to heavy metals modifies optimal gestational weight gain: A large nationally representative cohort of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
  • Association of prenatal exposure to cadmium with neurodevelopment in children at 2 years of age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]

• European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Mortality among individuals exposed to atomic bomb radiation in utero: 1950–2012 [2021]

• Science of The Total Environment
  • Associations between prenatal exposure to volatile organic compounds and neurodevelopment in 12-month-old children: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • Maternal Exposure to Housing Renovation During Pregnancy and Risk of Offspring with Congenital Malformation: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]

Low and middle income countries

• Environment International
  • Extreme heat, preterm birth, and stillbirth: A global analysis across 14 lower-middle income countries [2022]

• Environmental Research
  • Adverse birth outcomes associated with household air pollution from unclean cooking fuels in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2022]

Malawi

• Malawi Medical Journal
  • Maternal biomass smoke exposure and birth weight in Malawi: Analysis of data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey [2017]

Oman

• Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
  • Ergonomic Stressors Among Pregnant Healthcare Workers: Impact on pregnancy outcomes and recommended safety practices [2021]

Republic of Korea

• Environment International
  • Effect of heat waves and fine particulate matter on preterm births in Korea from 2010 to 2016 [2021]

• Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine
  • Reproductive toxic agents in work environments and related cases in Korea [2020]

Suriname

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Association of Mercury Exposure and Maternal Sociodemographics on Birth Outcomes of Indigenous and Tribal Women in Suriname [2021]

Sweden

• BMJ Open
  • Occupational exposure to inorganic particles during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]

• Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Occupational exposure to organic particles and combustion products during pregnancy and birth outcome in a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]

• Science of The Total Environment
  • Occupational exposure to whole body vibrations and birth outcomes – A nationwide cohort study of Swedish women [2021]

Taiwan

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Air Pollution during Pregnancy and Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwan [2021]

Thailand

• Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Exposure to ambient particulate matter and biomass burning during pregnancy: associations with birth weight in Thailand [2021]

United Kingdom

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy: Dealing with Potential, but Unproven, Risks to Child Health [2013]

• Royal College of Radiologists
  • Radiation and the early fetus [2013]
  • Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising Radiation [2009]
  • Pregnancy and Work in Diagnostic Imaging Departments, Second edition [2009]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2019]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental Agents [2021]
  • Air Travel During Pregnancy [2018]
  • Lead Screening During Pregnancy and Lactation [2012]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
  • Exposure to toxic metals and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the risk of preeclampsia and preterm birth in the United States: A review [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Guidelines for the identification and management of lead exposure in pregnant and lactating women [2010]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Maternal Exposure to Disinfection By-Products and Risk of Hypospadias in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2000–2005) [2020]
  • The Cumulative Risk of Chemical and Nonchemical Exposures on Birth Outcomes in Healthy Women: The Fetal Growth Study [2019]
  • Maternal Occupational Oil Mist Exposure and Birth Defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011 [2019]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure With Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Stillbirth in the US [2020]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Projected Changes in Maternal Heat Exposure During Early Pregnancy and the Associated Congenital Heart Defect Burden in the United States [2019]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Organophosphate exposures during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment: Recommendations for essential policy reforms [2018]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: Screening [2019]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Mercury and human health: educational course [2021]
  • Guideline for clinical management of exposure to lead [2021]
  • Exposure to lead: a major public health concern, 2nd edition [2021]

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