Heat waves; global warming; hypertensive diseases; prematurityIntroductionAir
Abstract :
[en] Objective:We studied potential effects of outdoor air temperatures or barometric pressure onbirths, preterm births and births associated with maternal hypertension. Methods:12,269 births were retrospectively reviewed in Brussel and 25,880 in South ReunionIsland. National Belgium and French weather reference centers provided outdoor air tempera-tures and barometric pressures from the nearest weather stations on the corresponding birth-days. Poisson regression models were used to assess if outdoor air temperatures or barometricpressure could be correlated, immediately and several days later, with the number of dailybirths, preterm births and births associated with hypertension. Results:Outdoor air temperature was significantly correlated to the number of daily births inBrussels. For each additional degree Celsius, overall births increased by 0.4% during the sameday. Four days later, overall births increased by 1.8%, preterm births by 2.6% and births associ-ated with hypertension by 5.7%. Similar observations on numbers of daily births were reportedin South Reunion Island, without reaching statistical significance (p¼.08). Conclusion:As previously demonstrated in recent studies, increased air temperature leads pro-gressively to higher rates of births and preterm births. An even stronger delayed effect of airtemperature was observed on births associated with hypertension. This would be worth furtherinvestigating.
Disciplines :
Reproductive medicine (gynecology, andrology, obstetrics)
Author, co-author :
Blavier, Frédéric; Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, UZ Brussels University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Barbe, Kurt; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Department of PublicHealth, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Faron, Gilles; Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, UZ Brussels University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Doutreloup, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Climatologie et Topoclimatologie
Boukerrou, Malik; Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of South Reunion Island, Saint Pierre,Reunion
Fuchs, Florent; Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital, University Hospital of Montpellier,Montpellier, France
Gucciardo, Leonardo; Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, UZ Brussels University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
Effect of air temperature on human births, preterm births and births associated with maternal hypertension
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