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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

Impacts of the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome on preterm birth rates in Oregon and Washington State.

Heather McBrien, Ralph Catalano, Tim Bruckner, Nina M Flores, Allison Stolte, Alison Gemmill, Joan A Casey

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

7 authors.

Heather McBrienColumbia University Mailman School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5908-5067
Ralph CatalanoSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7240-415X
Tim BrucknerDepartment of Health, Society, and Behavior, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6927-964X
Nina M FloresDell Medical School Department of Population Health, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2723-1728
Allison StolteDepartment of Sociology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0702-2344
Alison GemmillDepartment of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5879-9730
Joan A CaseyDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9809-4695

Funding

XENOBIOTIC BIOTRANSFORMATION AND DISPOSITIONP30ES007033 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Nicole Ann Errett · 1995 to 2026
$42.5M
Research Training to Promote Scientist Diversity & Health Equity in Cardiovascular & Lung DiseaseT32HL140290 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Yessenia Castro, Catherine Cubbin · 2018 to 2026
$2.7M
Racial disparities in preterm births and fetal lossesR01HD103736 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BRUCKNER, TIM ALLEN · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL140290NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD103736NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute heat exposure, which is increasing with climate change, likely increases preterm birth risk. However, few studies consider susceptible exposure windows for extreme heat events, particularly among historically unexposed populations. The 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome produced the highest temperatures ever recorded in usually temperate Oregon and Washington State, offering an ideal study setting. We used 2016-2022 vital statistics records to estimate the gestation month-specific impact of the Heat Dome on preterm birth. Using an interrupted time series design with a synthetic control, we compared the observed odds of preterm birth in the exposed (

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