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Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran
BACKGROUND: Climate change may jeopardize the health of mothers and their offspring. There are few studies on the association between increasing temperature and pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregna...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35109854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01344-7 |
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author | Khodadadi, Narges Dastoorpoor, Maryam Khanjani, Narges Ghasemi, Afsaneh |
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description | BACKGROUND: Climate change may jeopardize the health of mothers and their offspring. There are few studies on the association between increasing temperature and pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes including stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), preterm labor (PTL), spontaneous abortion (SA), preeclampsia and hypertension in Ahvaz, Iran. METHODS: Distributed Lag Non-linear Models (DLNM) combined with quasi-Poisson regression were used to research the effect of UTCI on adverse pregnancy outcomes. The effect of time trend, air pollutants (NO(2), SO(2) and PM(10)), and weekdays were adjusted. RESULTS: The results showed that the low values of UTCI index (11.6 °C, in lags 0–6, 0–13) caused significant increase in the risk of preterm labor. However, hot thermal stress (high UTCI) significantly increased the risk of stillbirth in lag 0–13. We did not observe any significant relation between UTCI and other pregnancy outcomes in this study. CONCLUSIONS: It seems like both hot and cold weathers can be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-88119632022-02-03 Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran Khodadadi, Narges Dastoorpoor, Maryam Khanjani, Narges Ghasemi, Afsaneh Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: Climate change may jeopardize the health of mothers and their offspring. There are few studies on the association between increasing temperature and pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes including stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), preterm labor (PTL), spontaneous abortion (SA), preeclampsia and hypertension in Ahvaz, Iran. METHODS: Distributed Lag Non-linear Models (DLNM) combined with quasi-Poisson regression were used to research the effect of UTCI on adverse pregnancy outcomes. The effect of time trend, air pollutants (NO(2), SO(2) and PM(10)), and weekdays were adjusted. RESULTS: The results showed that the low values of UTCI index (11.6 °C, in lags 0–6, 0–13) caused significant increase in the risk of preterm labor. However, hot thermal stress (high UTCI) significantly increased the risk of stillbirth in lag 0–13. We did not observe any significant relation between UTCI and other pregnancy outcomes in this study. CONCLUSIONS: It seems like both hot and cold weathers can be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. BioMed Central 2022-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8811963/ /pubmed/35109854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01344-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Khodadadi, Narges Dastoorpoor, Maryam Khanjani, Narges Ghasemi, Afsaneh Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title | Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title_full | Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title_fullStr | Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title_short | Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ahvaz, Iran |
title_sort | universal thermal climate index (utci) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in ahvaz, iran |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811963/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35109854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-022-01344-7 |
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