Ambient temperature-related sex ratio at birth in historical urban populations: the example of the city of Poznań, 1848–1900
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/75010330:_____/24:00014698
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64799-7" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64799-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64799-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-024-64799-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ambient temperature-related sex ratio at birth in historical urban populations: the example of the city of Poznań, 1848–1900
Original language description
This study examines whether exposure to ambient temperature in nineteenth-century urban space affected the ratio of boys to girls at birth. Furthermore, we investigate the details of temperature effects timing upon sex ratio at birth. The research included 66,009 individual births, aggregated in subsequent months of births for the years 1847–1900, i.e. 33,922 boys and 32,087 girls. The statistical modelling of the probability of a girl being born is based on logistic GAM with penalized splines and automatically selected complexity. Our research emphasizes the significant effect of temperature in the year of conception: the higher the temperature was, the smaller probability of a girl being born was observed. There were also several significant temperature lags before conception and during pregnancy. Our findings indicate that in the past, ambient temperature, similar to psychological stress, hunger, malnutrition, and social and economic factors, influenced the viability of a foetus. Research on the effects of climate on the sex ratio in historical populations may allow for a better understanding of the relationship between environmental factors and reproduction, especially concerning historical populations since due to some cultural limitations, they were more prone to stronger environmental stressors than currently.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10103 - Statistics and probability
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
2045-2322
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
14001
UT code for WoS article
001314381900071
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85196056528