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However, it is not clear when during pregnancy increases in air pollution are associated with the largest differences in birth weight.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using the natural experiment of air pollution declines during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, we evaluated whether having specific months of pregnancy (i.e., 1st\u20268th) during the 2008 Olympics period was associated with larger birth weights, compared with pregnancies during the same dates in 2007 or 2009.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using n = 83,672 term births to mothers residing in four urban districts of Beijing, we estimated the difference in birth weight associated with having individual months of pregnancy during the 2008 Olympics (8 August\u201324 September 2008) compared with the same dates in 2007 and 2009. We also estimated the difference in birth weight associated with interquartile range (IQR) increases in mean ambient particulate matter \u2264 2.5 \u03bcm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations during each pregnancy month.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Babies whose 8th month of gestation occurred during the 2008 Olympics were, on average, 23 g larger (95% CI: 5 g, 40 g) than babies whose 8th month occurred during the same calendar dates in 2007 or 2009. IQR increases in PM2.5 (19.8 \u03bcg\/m3), CO (0.3 ppm), SO2 (1.8 ppb), and NO2 (13.6 ppb) concentrations during the 8th month of pregnancy were associated with 18 g (95% CI: \u201332 g, \u20133 g), 17 g (95% CI: \u201328 g, \u20136 g), 23 g (95% CI: \u201336 g, \u201310 g), and 34 g (95% CI: \u201370 g, 3 g) decreases in birth weight, respectively. We did not see significant associations for months 1\u20137.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Short-term decreases in air pollution late in pregnancy in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics, a normally heavily polluted city, were associated with higher birth weight.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Citation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Rich DQ, Liu K, Zhang J, Thurston SW, Stevens TP, Pan Y, Kane C, Weinberger B, Ohman-Strickland P, Woodruff TJ, Duan X, Assibey-Mensah V, Zhang J. 2015. Differences in birth weight associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics air pollution reduction: results from a natural experiment. Environ Health Perspect 123:880\u2013887;\u2002http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1289\/ehp.1408795<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1289\/ehp.1408795","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,28]],"date-time":"2015-04-28T15:00:38Z","timestamp":1430233238000},"page":"880-887","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":150,"title":["Differences in Birth Weight Associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Reduction: Results from a Natural Experiment"],"prefix":"10.1021","volume":"123","author":[{"given":"David Q.","family":"Rich","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kaibo","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Maternal and Child Health, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 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