Figure 1.

Maternal-perinatal black carbon load and residential black carbon exposure during pregnancy

Association between mothers' black carbon exposure during the whole pregnancy and the amount of black carbon particles present in maternal and cord blood (A) and term placental tissue (B) from 60 mother-neonate pairs of the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort study. In panels A and B, datapoints correspond to the geometric mean black carbon load in each sample, the solid lines indicate the regression lines, and shaded areas show the 95% CIs. (C) Heatmap showing association between different biological samples and black carbon load, with two-sided Pearson correlation. The stronger the positive association, the darker the colour of the blue box and similar for the red colour indicating a negative association.