Individual and Joint Effects of Early-Life Ambient PM2.5 Exposure and Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity on Childhood Overweight or Obesity

Conclusions: In this study, we observed that early-life PM2.5 exposures may play an important role in the early-life origins of COWO and may increase risk of COWO in children of mothers who were overweight or obese before pregnancy beyond the risk due to MPBMI alone. Our findings underscore the clinical and public health policy relevance of early-life PM2.5 exposures.

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Citation: Mao G, Nachman RM, Sun Q, Zhang X, Koehler K, Chen Z, Hong X, Wang G, Caruso D, Zong G, Pearson C, Ji H, Biswal S, Zuckerman B, Wills-Karp M, Wang X. Individual and Joint Effects of Early-Life Ambient PM2.5 Exposure and Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity on Childhood Overweight or Obesity. Environ Health Perspect; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP261
Received: 29 March 2016
Revised: 8 August 2016
Accepted: 23 August 2016
Published: 16 September 2016
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Source: EHP Research - September 16, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Children's Health Source Type: research