AUG 15, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Association of prenatal exposure to PM2.5 and its chemical constituents with early childhood obesity: A population-based study
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Large prospective population-based study with 339,435 mother-child pairs using validated exposure assessment and quantile g-computation to evaluate PM2.5 constituents and childhood obesity, showing consistent dose-response associations across multiple pollutants with narrow confidence intervals.
Reported
Sample size339435
PM2.5 total mass (per IQR) - OR1.050
PM2.5 total mass (per IQR) - 95%…1.036, 1.064