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Ambient Temperature and Reproductive Health Outcomes

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Increasing evidence shows that ambient temperature has extensive effects on reproductive health outcomes, including hypertensive disorders, preterm birth, and childhood health. In this chapter, related studies published in Chinese or in English were searched from electronic sources and references lists of identified sources, to obtain a whole picture on the updated association between ambient temperature exposure and reproductive health outcomes in Chinese population.

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    Minshan Lu, Xuan Zhao, Dongmei Wei, Jiaying Zhang, Yusi Li, Jianrong He, Huimin Xia & Xiu Qiu

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Lu, M. et al. (2019). Ambient Temperature and Reproductive Health Outcomes. In: Lin, H., Ma, W., Liu, Q. (eds) Ambient Temperature and Health in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2583-0_6

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