The association of air pollution with birthweight and gestational age: evidence from Hong Kong's ‘Children of 1997’ birth cohort | Zendy

Jian Huang | Zendy; GM Leung | Zendy; C. Mary Schooling | Zendy

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The association of air pollution with birthweight and gestational age: evidence from Hong Kong's ‘Children of 1997’ birth cohort

Author(s) -

Jian Huang,

GM Leung,

C. Mary Schooling

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdw068

Subject(s) - medicine , environmental health , cohort , cohort study , epidemiology , gestational age , demography , association (psychology) , pediatrics , pregnancy , psychology , sociology , biology , genetics , pathology , psychotherapist

Previous studies from Western settings have found inconsistent associations of air pollutants with birth outcomes, which are open to residual confounding by socioeconomic position (SEP). We assessed this association in the economically developed non-Western setting of Hong Kong, with high levels of air pollution but little social patterning of these outcomes.

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