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March 16, 2024Environment InternationalOpen Access

Pregnancy exposure to PM2.5 from wildland fire smoke and preterm birth in California

Sally Picciotto ShihMing Huang Frederick Lurmann Nathan Pavlovic Shih Ying Chang Anondo Mukherjee Dana E. Goin Rachel Sklar Elizabeth M. Noth Rachel Morello‐Frosch Amy Padula

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Abstract

Wildfires in the Western United States are a growing and significant source of air pollution that is eroding decades of progress in air pollution reduction. The effects on preterm birth during critical periods of pregnancy are unknown.

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Picciotto et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e73b96b6db6435876b4ee0 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108583

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