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Abbreviations: PTB= Preterm Birth
a. Studies are sorted first by overall study confidence level then by Exposure Window examined.
b. For evaluation of patterns of results, we considered studies that collected biomarker samples concurrently or after birth to be cross-sectional analyses {e.g., Yang, 2022, 10176806@@author-year}.