Prenatal exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and childhood growth trajectories from age 5–14 years

There is evidence that exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and fine particles in air pollution are associated with higher childhood body mass index (BMI). Birth cohort analyses of prenatal exposures to PAH and child BMI Z-scores from age 5–14 years were conducted. African-American and Hispanic children born in the Bronx or Northern Manhattan, New York (1998–2006), whose mothers underwent personal air monitoring for airborne PAH...