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Environmental lead level and pregnancy-induced hypertension |
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| Authors: | Chen Xi-Kuan Yang Qiuying Smith Graeme Krewski Daniel Walker Mark Wen Shi Wu |
| Institution: | a OMNI Research Group, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada b OMNI Research Group, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada c McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada d Queen's Perinatal Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada e Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| Abstract: | Previous studies have suggested that environmental lead exposure increases the risk of hypertension in the general population. In this article, the authors used the 1998 linked birth/infant death database of the United States to examine the association between environmental lead level and the occurrence of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). Yearly summaries of environmental lead levels were abstracted from the US Environmental Protection Agency's air pollution databases, and linked with birth/infant death records by state codes. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to evaluate the odds ratios of PIH associated with environmental lead measured at ecological levels, with adjustment for maternal age, race, education level, marital status, parity, and adequacy of prenatal care measured at individual levels, stratified by maternal cigarette smoking. A total of 2,994,072 women pregnant in 1998 were included in this study. With the first quartile of lead level as the reference group, the odds ratio for PIH among all study subjects in the second quartile of seasonal average lead level at conception was 1.07 (95% CI: 1.05-1.08), and odds ratios in the third and fourth quartiles were 1.22 (95% CI: 1.20-1.25) and 1.16 (95% CI: 1.15-1.18), respectively. The odds ratios for the second, third, and fourth quartiles of seasonal average lead level at birth were 1.07 (95% CI: 1.05-1.09), 1.21 (95% CI: 1.19-1.23), and 1.15 (95% CI: 1.13-1.17), respectively. The risk of PIH increased by 4% per 0.05 μg/m3 increase in seasonal average lead level at conception and birth, in both smokers and nonsmokers. These results suggest that higher environmental lead levels increase the risk of PIH. |
| Keywords: | Pregnancy-induced hypertension Lead Air pollution |
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