Air Pollution and Stillbirth Risk: Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter during Pregnancy Is Associated with Fetal Death

Emily DeFranco; Eric Hall; Monir Hossain; Aimin Chen; Erin N. Haynes; David Jones; Sheng Ren; Long Lu; Louis Muglia

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120594

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Air Pollution and Stillbirth Risk: Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter during Pregnancy Is Associated with Fetal Death

Emily DeFranco ,

* E-mail: emily.defranco@uc.edu

Affiliations Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Eric Hall,

Affiliation Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Monir Hossain,

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Aimin Chen,

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Erin N. Haynes,

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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David Jones,

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Sheng Ren,

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Long Lu,

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Louis Muglia

Affiliations Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Air Pollution and Stillbirth Risk: Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter during Pregnancy Is Associated with Fetal Death

Emily DeFranco,
Eric Hall,
Monir Hossain,
Aimin Chen,
Erin N. Haynes,
David Jones,
Sheng Ren,
Long Lu,
Louis Muglia

Published: March 20, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120594

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