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INCREASED RISK OF PRETERM DELIVERY IN AREAS WITH AIR POLLUTION FROM A PETROLEUM REFINERY PLANT IN TAIWAN | Semantic Scholar

@article{Lin2001INCREASEDRO,
  title={INCREASED RISK OF PRETERM DELIVERY IN AREAS WITH AIR POLLUTION FROM A PETROLEUM REFINERY PLANT IN TAIWAN},
  author={Meng-Chiao Lin and Hui Fen Chiu and Hsin‐Su Yu and Shang Shyue Tsai and Bi-Hua Cheng and Trong-Neng Wu and Fung-Chang Sung and Chun‐Yuh Yang},
  journal={Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A},
  year={2001},
  volume={64},
  pages={637 - 644},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:29365261}
}

Data support the view that air pollution can affect the outcome of pregnancy and the prevalence of delivery of preterm birth infants was significantly higher in mothers living in a petroleum refinery area compared to controls in Taiwan.

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