Association of maternal prenatal selenium concentration and preterm birth: a multicountry meta-analysis

• Anisur Rahman,
• Ana Alfirevic,
• Kenneth Maleta,
• Ulla Ashorn,
• Per Ashorn,
• Kelli K Ryckman,
• Stephen H Kennedy,
• Monjur Rahman,
• Jesmin Pervin,
• Cathrine Hoyo,
• Rasheda Khanam,
• James A Litch,
• Aneeta Hotwani,
• Daniel E Roth,
• Ge Zhang,
• Abdullah Al Mahmud,
• Mikko Hallman,
• Huan Xu,
• Zarko Alfirevic,
• Jeffrey C Murray,
• Bellington Vwalika,
• Susan Murphy,
• Patrick Musonda,
• Nagendra Monangi,
• Angharad Care,
• Waqasuddin Khan,
• Joan T Price,
• Yuemei Fan,
• Thanh Q Le,
• Julio A Landero,
• Gerald F Combs,
• Elizabeth Belling,
• Joanne Chappell,
• Fansheng Kong,
• Criag Lacher,
• Nabidul Haque Chowdhury,
• Furqan Kabir,
• Imran Nisar,
• Ambreen Nizar,
• Javairia Khalid,
• Said Ali,
• Mohammed Hamad Juma,
• Md Munirul Islam,
• Laura Goodfellow,
• Juhi K Gupta,
• Larry Rand,
• Courtney Baruch-Gravett,
• Abdullah Baqui,
• Jane Hirst,
• Laura L Jelliffe-Pawlowski,
• Jeffrey Stringer,
• Louis Muglia

Affiliations

Anisur Rahman

Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ana Alfirevic

2 NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, North West Coast, UK

Kenneth Maleta

8 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Ulla Ashorn

10 Center for Child Health Research, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Per Ashorn

Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Kelli K Ryckman

Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Stephen H Kennedy

1 Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Monjur Rahman

1 Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jesmin Pervin

1 Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cathrine Hoyo

2 Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Rasheda Khanam

1 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

James A Litch

Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), Lynnwood, Washington, USA

Aneeta Hotwani

Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Daniel E Roth

1 Centre for Global Child Health & Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ge Zhang

5 Human Genetics Division, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Abdullah Al Mahmud

School of Design; Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mikko Hallman

1 PEDEGO Research Unit and MRC Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Huan Xu

Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Zarko Alfirevic

11 Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Jeffrey C Murray

University of Iowa, Department of Paediatrics, Iowa City, USA

Bellington Vwalika

4Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

Susan Murphy

3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Patrick Musonda

Department of Medical Statistics, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Nagendra Monangi

1Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center/University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Angharad Care

3Centre for Women’s Health Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Waqasuddin Khan

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Joan T Price

Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Yuemei Fan

Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

Thanh Q Le

Benh Vien Tu Du, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Julio A Landero

Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Gerald F Combs

Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

Elizabeth Belling

Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Joanne Chappell

Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Fansheng Kong

Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Criag Lacher

Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA ARS, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA

Nabidul Haque Chowdhury

Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Furqan Kabir

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Imran Nisar

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Ambreen Nizar

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Javairia Khalid

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Said Ali

Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania

Mohammed Hamad Juma

Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania

Md Munirul Islam

Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Laura Goodfellow

Department of Women`s and Children`s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

Juhi K Gupta

Department of Women`s and Children`s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

Larry Rand

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Courtney Baruch-Gravett

Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, Lynnwood, Washington, USA

Abdullah Baqui

International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Jane Hirst

Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Laura L Jelliffe-Pawlowski

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Jeffrey Stringer

Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Louis Muglia

Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA