Associations between ambient temperature and risk of preterm birth in Sweden: A comparison of analytical approaches

Evidence indicates that high temperatures are a risk factor for preterm birth. Increasing heat exposures due to climate change are therefore a concern for pregnant women. However, the large heterogeneity of study designs and statistical methods across previous studies complicate interpretation and c...

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Hauptverfasser: de Bont, Jeroen, Stafoggia, Massimo, Nakstad, Britt, Hajat, Shakoor, Kovats, Sari, Part, Chérie, Chersich, Matthew, Luchters, Stanley, Filippi, Veronique, Stephansson, Olof, Ljungman, Petter, Roos, Nathalie
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description Evidence indicates that high temperatures are a risk factor for preterm birth. Increasing heat exposures due to climate change are therefore a concern for pregnant women. However, the large heterogeneity of study designs and statistical methods across previous studies complicate interpretation and comparisons. We investigated associations of short-term exposure to high ambient temperature with preterm birth in Sweden, applying three complementary analytical approaches. We included 560,615 singleton live births between 2014 and 2019, identified in the Swedish Pregnancy Register. We estimated weekly mean temperatures at 1-km2 spatial resolution using a spatiotemporal machine learning methodology, and assigned them at the residential addresses of the study participants. The main outcomes of the study were gestational age in weeks and subcategories of preterm birth (
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