Maternal mercury exposure, season of conception and adverse birth outcomes in an urban immigrant community in New York City

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dc.contributor.advisorSapkota, Amiren_US
dc.contributor.authorBashore, Cynthia Diana Jenningsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMaryland Institute for Applied Environmental Healthen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-06T07:26:43Z
dc.date.available2013-02-06T07:26:43Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractAdverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth (PTB: < 37 weeks gestation) and low birthweight (LBW: <2500g) result in severe infant morbidity and mortality. In the United States, there are racial and ethnic differences in the prevalence of preterm birth and low birth weight. The focus of this study is to examine the association between frequency of maternal fish consumption during pregnancy, prenatal mercury exposure, and season of conception with preterm birth and low birth weight in a population of African-American, Caribbean and West Indian women in an urban immigrant community in New York City. The proportion of preterm births and low birth rates in this cohort of women was higher than reported in other studies of African-American and Caribbean births in New York City. There was no association between maternal urinary mercury or infant cord blood concentrations and either LBW or preterm birth. Infants conceived in winter (December, January, February) were at increased odds of low birthweight.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13571
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEpidemiologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAdverse birth outcomeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFish consumptionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLow birthweighten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMercuryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPreterm birthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSeason of conceptionen_US
dc.titleMaternal mercury exposure, season of conception and adverse birth outcomes in an urban immigrant community in New York Cityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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