Ambient air pollution exposure during the late gestational period is linked with lower placental iodine load in a Belgian birth cohort.

Environ Int · 2021 · PMC7816215 · PMID 33360673

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Assuming causality, the adjusted estimates of the proportion of mediation showed that placental iodine concentrations explained 26% with borderline significance (IE: −0.33; 95%CI: −0.70–0.04; p = 0.08) of the association between weeks 29–35 of PM 2.5 exposure and cord blood FT 4 levels ( Fig. 2 ).

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The estimated mediated proportion was 26% (on average −0.33 pmol/L per 5 μg/m 3 increment in PM 2.5 ), albeit borderline significant.

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