Maternal exposure to Wenchuan earthquake and prolonged risk of offspring birth outcomes: a natural experiment study

• Main Authors: Qiguo Lian (Author), Jiaying Ni (Author), Jun Zhang (Author), Julian Little (Author), Shan Luo (Author), Lin Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The prolonged effects of disasters on reproductive outcomes among the survivors are less studied, and the findings are inconsistent. We examined the associations of maternal exposure to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake years before conception with adverse birth outcomes. Methods We i...