Sandie Ha1, Kelly Nguyen2, Danping Liu3, Tuija Männistö4, Carrie Nobles5, Seth Sherman6, Pauline Mendola7. 1. Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, NICHD, 6710B Rockledge Drive Room 3119, MSC 7004 Bethesda, Rockville, MD, USA; School of Social Sciences, Humanties and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA, USA. 2. Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, NICHD, 6710B Rockledge Drive Room 3119, MSC 7004 Bethesda, Rockville, MD, USA; San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 3. Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, NICHD, Rockville, MD, USA. 4. Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab, Oulu, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland. 5. Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, NICHD, 6710B Rockledge Drive Room 3119, MSC 7004 Bethesda, Rockville, MD, USA. 6. The Emmes Corporation, Rockville, MD, USA. 7. Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, NICHD, 6710B Rockledge Drive Room 3119, MSC 7004 Bethesda, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: pauline.mendola@nih.gov.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Extreme ambient temperatures are linked to cardiac events in the general population, but this relationship is unclear among pregnant women. We estimated the associations and attributable risk between ambient temperature and the risk of cardiovascular event at labor/delivery, and investigated whether these associations vary by maternal race/ethnicity. METHODS: We identified 680 women with singleton deliveries affected by cardiovascular events across 12 US sites (2002-2008). Average daily temperature during the week before, delivery day, and each of the seven days before delivery was estimated for each woman. In a case-crossover analysis, exposures during these hazard periods were compared to two control periods before and after delivery using conditional logistic regression adjusted for other environmental factors. RESULTS: During the cold season (October-April), 1°C lower during the week prior to delivery was associated with a 4% (95% CI: 1-7%) increased risk of having a labor/delivery affected by cardiovascular events including cardiac arrest and stroke. During the warm season (May-September), 1°C higher during the week prior was associated with a 7% (95% CI: 3-12%) increased risk. These risks translated to 13.4 and 23.9 excess events per 100,000 singleton deliveries during the cold and warm season, respectively. During the warm season, the risks were more pronounced on days closer to delivery and Black women appeared to be more susceptible to the same temperature increase. CONCLUSION: Small changes in temperature appear to affect the risk of having cardiovascular events at labor/delivery. Black women had a differentially higher warm season risk. These findings merit further investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc.
BACKGROUND: Extreme ambient temperatures are linked to cardiac events in the general population, but this relationship is unclear among pregnant women. We estimated the associations and attributable risk between ambient temperature and the risk of cardiovascular event at labor/delivery, and investigated whether these associations vary by maternal race/ethnicity. METHODS: We identified 680 women with singleton deliveries affected by cardiovascular events across 12 US sites (2002-2008). Average daily temperature during the week before, delivery day, and each of the seven days before delivery was estimated for each woman. In a case-crossover analysis, exposures during these hazard periods were compared to two control periods before and after delivery using conditional logistic regression adjusted for other environmental factors. RESULTS: During the cold season (October-April), 1°C lower during the week prior to delivery was associated with a 4% (95% CI: 1-7%) increased risk of having a labor/delivery affected by cardiovascular events including cardiac arrest and stroke. During the warm season (May-September), 1°C higher during the week prior was associated with a 7% (95% CI: 3-12%) increased risk. These risks translated to 13.4 and 23.9 excess events per 100,000 singleton deliveries during the cold and warm season, respectively. During the warm season, the risks were more pronounced on days closer to delivery and Black women appeared to be more susceptible to the same temperature increase. CONCLUSION: Small changes in temperature appear to affect the risk of having cardiovascular events at labor/delivery. Black women had a differentially higher warm season risk. These findings merit further investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Cardiovascular events; Climate change; Labor and delivery; Pregnancy; Temperature
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