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Pregnancy and Birth Outcome Research
We focus on the woman and infant's health during and after pregnancy, with special attention to environmental factors that are associated with these health outcomes. Learn about adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes (e.g., miscarriage, fetal death, preterm birth, and low birthweight), and EHIB's activities to address these issues.
Research Papers
2018-2000
- Recently published! Neighborhood Privilege, Preterm Delivery, and Related Racial/Ethnic Disparities: An Intergenerational Application of the Index of Concentration at the Extremes. (2020)
- Life-course neighbourhood opportunity and racial-ethnic disparities in risk of preterm birth. (2018)
- Maternal perchlorate exposure in pregnancy and altered birth outcomes. (2017)
- Environmental Chemicals in an Urban Population of Pregnant Women and Their Newborns from San Francisco. (2016)
- Trends in CT scan rates in children and pregnant women: teaching, private, public and nonprofit facilities (2014)
- Residential exposure to traffic and spontaneous abortion. (2009)
- Environmental contaminants and pregnancy outcomes. (2008)
- Pregnancy outcomes, infant mortality, and arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India. (2006)
- Trends in the sex ratio of California births, 1960-1996. (2005)
- Influence of paternal age on the risk of spontaneous abortion. (2005)
- Environmental tobacco smoke and pregnancy outcome. (2004)
- Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California County: The role of individual and neighborhood level factors. (2003)
- Elevated mercury levels in pregnant woman linked to skin cream from Mexico. (2002)
- Prenatal active or passive tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of preterm delivery or low birth weight. (2000)
1999-1997
- Exposure to environmental and mainstream tobacco smoke and risk of spontaneous abortion. (1999)
- Evidence for an association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and birthweight: a meta-analysis and new data. (1999)
- Rate of caffeine metabolism and risk of spontaneous abortion. (1998)
- A prospective study of spontaneous abortion: relation to amount and source of drinking water consumed in early pregnancy. (1998)
- Pregnancy outcomes around the BKK landfill, West Covina, California: An analysis by address (1998) (PDF)
- A prospective study of work-related physical exertion and spontaneous abortion. (1997)
- Caffeinated beverages, decaffeinated coffee, and spontaneous abortion. (1997)
- Moderate maternal alcohol consumption and risk of spontaneous abortion. (1997)
- Moderate maternal and paternal alcohol consumption and the risk of spontaneous abortion. (1997)
- Moderate maternal drinking and infant birthweight. (1997)
- Pregnancy outcomes in Mexican and U.S.-born Hispanics (1997) (PDF)
1995-1992
- The association of moderate maternal and paternal alcohol consumption with birthweight and gestational age. (1995)
- Employment in electronics manufacturing and risk of spontaneous abortion. (1993)
- An investigation of spontaneous abortions following a metam sodium spill into the Sacramento River (1993) (PDF)
- Moderate maternal and paternal alcohol consumption and the risk of spontaneous abortion. (1992)
- Parental cigarette smoking and the risk of spontaneous abortion. (1992)
- Potential sources of bias and confounding in environmental epidemiologic studies of pregnancy outcomes. (1992)
- Tap or bottled water consumption and spontaneous abortion in a case-control study of reporting consistency. (1992)
- Tap or bottled water consumption and spontaneous abortion: a 1986 case-control study in California. (1992)
- Spontaneous abortions and birth defects related to tap and bottled water use, San Jose, California, 1980-1985. (1992)
- Is drinking water related to spontaneous abortion? Reviewing the evidence from the California Department of Health Services Studies. (1992)
- Adverse pregnancy outcomes in relation to water consumption: a re-analysis of data from the original Santa Clara County Study, California, 1980-1981. (1992)
- Assessment of reporting consistency in a case-control study of spontaneous abortions. (1991)
1991-1985
- Pregnancy outcomes in women potentially exposed to occupational solvents and women working in the electronics industry. (1991)
- Caffeine consumption during pregnancy and fetal growth. (1991)
- Assessment of reporting consistency in a case-control study of spontaneous abortions. (1991)
- Exposure to organic solvents and adverse pregnancy outcome. (1991)
- Use of video display terminals during pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous abortion, low birthweight, or intrauterine growth retardation. (1990)
- Hydrogeologic assessment of exposure to solvent-contaminated drinking water: pregnancy outcomes in relation to exposure. (1990)
- Pregnancy outcomes in women potentially exposed to solvent-contaminated drinking water in San Jose, California. (1990)
- Spontaneous abortions in relation to consumption of tap water: an application of methods from survival analysis to a pregnancy follow-up study. (1989)
- Water exposure and pregnancy outcomes (1988) (PDF)
- Pregnancy outcomes in Santa Clara County 1980-1985 (1985) (PDF)
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