Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Air pollution exposure associates with increased risk of neonatal jaundice

  • Liqiang Zhang,
  • Weiwei Liu,
  • Kun Hou,
  • Jintai Lin,
  • Changqing Song,
  • Chenghu Zhou,
  • Bo Huang,
  • Xiaohua Tong,
  • Jinfeng Wang,
  • William Rhine,
  • Ying Jiao,
  • Ziwei Wang,
  • Ruijing Ni,
  • Mengyao Liu,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Ziye Wang,
  • Yuebin Wang,
  • Xingang Li,
  • Suhong Liu,
  • Yanhong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11387-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Air pollution has become a major health risk in China. Here Zhang et al. report that maternal and neonatal exposure to particulate matter increases the risk of neonatal jaundice based on the study of 25,782 newborns born in China between 2014 and 2017.