China Youth Daily client news (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Wang Yejie) Recently, the National Children's Medical Center (Shanghai), The Neonatology Department of Shanghai Children's Medical Center affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Sun Jianhua, and the Befi team published online in the international authoritative journal "Environmental Research" entitled "Exposure to air pollutants during pregnancy and after birth." increases the risk of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia "the latest clinical findings of the new clinical study( air pollutant exposure during pregnancy and after birth of the newborn increases the risk of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns)."
Starting from the clinical phenomenon of "there seems to be more neonatal jaundice patients visiting during the period of high air pollution", the team found five important independent risk factors such as inhalable particulate matter such as PM10, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, based on the cohort of 11,196 healthy pregnant women and their newborn babies in shanghai multi-center, and constructed a comprehensive air pollution exposure index to establish a new prediction model for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. This model can be applied to the classification and management of neonatal jaundice patients to improve the efficiency of medical resources.
Neonatal jaundice is one of the most common symptoms in the neonatal period, and severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia can lead to a poor prognosis of the nervous system, which brings a huge burden to families and society. A growing body of research suggests that exposure to pollutants may not only increase the risk of premature birth and congenital malformations in newborns, but is also a risk factor for the development of the nervous system in long-term children.
The first author and co-first author of this paper are Zhuang Jialu, attending physician of the Department of Neonatology of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, and Hu Jie, resident physician of cardiothoracic surgery, respectively, and the corresponding author is Sun Jianhua, chief physician of the Department of Neonatology.
Source: China Youth Daily client
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