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🤰🌡️Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable & at greater risk of heat impacts. Protect yourself & your loved ones during heat waves. Las mujeres embarazadas son especialmente vulnerables. Protéjase y proteja a sus seres queridos durante las olas de calor.#ClimateJusticeIsHot

🧠🌡️Heat can affect your mental health, emotions, & well-being. ER visits go up for anxiety, stress, and self-harm during heat waves. Seek support and be good to yourself! Call 988 for crisis intervention. Call 311 for cooling centers. #HeatRelief4LA #HeatSafeLA #ClimateEquityLA

Even before pregnancy, air pollution exposure could increase risk of gestational diabetes #GDM. Prenatal #depression made it worse. Check our new publication from MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities with Shohreh Farzan Tracy Bastain, PhD, MPH Rima Habre, ScD et al. The Lancet Reg Health-Americas tinyurl.com/bdzxn5hu

After finding that, virtually, no US diet supplement alone can fully meet recommended intakes for 6 key prenatal nutrients (separate analysis), we show similar results for whole foods. Whole foods & diet supplements may be needed to meet target intakes. tinyurl.com/2deyj8yw

Great presentation by Dr. Ixel Hernandez-Castro Ixel Hernandez-Castro at #ISES2023 on prenatal exposures to OPEs and infant motor development International Society of Exposure Science Population and Public Health Sciences at USC USC Enviro Health

Exciting News! Join us in a year-long journey into the world of #Environmental #Epidemiology! We are thrilled to announce the ISEE Online Course on "Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology" starting in November 2023. iseepi.org/isee_online_co… #ISEEnviEpiCourse

"From a policy point of view… If we have evidence of that harm, we should be able to start regulating and doing something about it now.” -MADRES Co-director Dr. Carrie Breton in a new article by The Examination on consumer products and chemical exposure theexamination.org/articles/every…

Congratulations to the fabulous Dr. Hernandez-Castro on this important work uncovering neurobehavioral effects of an important class of emerging chemicals of concern (OPEs) in the MADRES cohort.

Congratulations to our faculty member Max Aung, PhD, MPH, who's research on environmental health and environmental justice is highlighted by @NIEHS_PEPH this month. Fight on! ✌️

Happy to share the first paper from our MetaAir2 study! We demonstrate a link between perceived stress from adolescence to adulthood and cardiometabolic health in young adults. J Am Heart Association AHA Science Keck Medicine of USC Population and Public Health Sciences at USC USC Press Room ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…

Check out this article by Environmental Health News featuring MADRES Center research! Understanding how the environment affects pregnant people’s health ehn.org/pregnant-peopl…

#ECHOChildHealth Cohort researchers found that #pregnant individuals exposed to specific classes of flame-retardant chemicals known as organophosphate esters (OPEs) may face an increased risk of #preterm birth, especially for baby girls: bit.ly/3SfToOk

New work from MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities and led by a stellar postdoc, Dr. Luis Maldonado Luis E. Maldonado, PhD, MPH.

Children exposed to fluoride in the womb were 1.83 times more likely to show behavioral problems with emotional reactivity, somatic complaints (such as headaches and stomachaches), anxiety and symptoms linked to autism. #pregnancy keck.usc.edu/news/fluoride-…

New work published in ⁦JAMA Network Open⁩ in the MADRES Cohort showing higher neurodevelopmental problems at 3 years were associated with higher maternal urinary fluoride levels in pregnancy. ⁦MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

New work this week in ⁦JESEE⁩ from ⁦MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities⁩ doctoral student Yuhong Hu showing increased postpartum depressive and anxiety symptoms associated with higher prenatal traffic-related air pollution especially in women with HDPs. nature.com/articles/s4137…

New results from the MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities showing long-term impacts of prenatal air pollution exposure on maternal depression after pregnancy. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New Population and Public Health Sciences at USC study shows women exposed to higher levels of air pollution during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy face a fourfold increased risk of #PostpartumDepression compared to those exposed to lower levels, a risk that persists for at least 3 years. keck.usc.edu/news/exposure-…

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#ECHOChildHealth Cohort Research led by Dr. Assiamira Ferrara & Alicia Peterson, PhD found that exposure to DBUP/DIBP or BDCPP—organophosphate esters (OPEs) found in flame retardants & plastics—during #pregnancy may be linked to childhood #obesity risk: bit.ly/3CbAvaZ