Whitworth KW

ORCID: 0000-0003-2334-6066 · 4 papers in corpus
2023
Environmental justice burden and Black-White disparities in spontaneous preterm birth in Harris County, Texas.
Frontiers in reproductive health ·doi:10.3389/frph.2023.1296590

IntroductionGiven limited evidence of previous studies, we evaluated the role of environmental justice (EJ) burden (i.e., a neighborhood characterized by both increased environmental burden and socioeconomic deprivation) in Black-White disp…

2018
Oral contraceptive use as a determinant of plasma concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances among women in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa) study.
Environment international ·doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.12.015

ObjectiveBecause oral contraceptives (OC) tends to lessen menstrual fluid loss - a route of excretion for perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) - we hypothesized that such use would be positively associated with PFAS concentrations.MethodsThis …

2012
Perfluorinated compounds and subfecundity in pregnant women.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) ·doi:10.1097/ede.0b013e31823b5031

BackgroundPerfluorinated compounds are ubiquitous pollutants; epidemiologic data suggest they may be associated with adverse health outcomes, including subfecundity. We examined subfecundity in relation to 2 perfluorinated compounds-perfluo…

2011
Fecundability among women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
Diabetologia ·doi:10.1007/s00125-010-2003-6

Aims/hypothesisWe assessed the effects of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes on fecundability (as manifest by increased time-to-pregnancy [TTP]) in a large cohort of pregnant women.MethodsThis study is based on the Norwegian Mother and Chi…