Table 3

Changes in birth weight (in g) for a 10 μg/m3 change in exposure to air pollutants (except CO for which a 1 ppm change was used) at each trimester of pregnancy. Results from regression models adjusted for covariates presented in table 2 (except parity)

TrimesterPollutantChange in birth weight (95% CI)
FirstPM10−13.7(−27.0 to −0.4)
SO2−24.2(−55.5 to 7.1)
NO2−7.0(−14.3 to 0.3)
CO−23.1(−41.3 to −4.9)
O3−1.6(−12.8 to 9.5)
SecondPM10−4.4(−18.9 to 10.1)
SO233.7(1.6 to 65.8)
NO20.3(−8.6 to 9.2)
CO3.2(−18.2 to 24.5)
O3−0.1(−11.9 to 11.7)
ThirdPM1014.6(0.0 to 29.2)
SO29.7(−25.6 to 44.9)
NO23.6(−6.6 to 13.7)
CO1.9(−18.2 to 22.0)
O3−3.0(−15.4 to 9.4)