Maria D. Politis

Post-Doctoral Fellow

UAMS

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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11 h-index 31 pubs 389 cited

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Maria D. Politis's research focuses on the impact of environmental exposures and maternal health factors on child development and health outcomes. Her work has investigated prenatal metal exposures and their association with kidney injury biomarkers in children, as well as the critical windows of perinatal particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and its effects on preadolescent kidney function. Politis has also examined the relationship between recent ambient temperature, fine particulate matter exposure, and urinary kidney injury biomarkers in children. Her research extends to the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic's influence on supplement usage and self-medication practices within Arkansas, and the spatial and temporal reproduction numbers of SARS-CoV-2 in relation to public health policies. Additionally, she has explored the link between fever and antibiotic use in maternal urinary tract infections during pregnancy and the risk of congenital heart defects. Politis has 31 publications and an h-index of 11.

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h-index: 11
Publications: 31
Citations: 389

Selected Publications

Years of Potential Life Lost for Children and Adults With Congenital Heart Defects: United States, 2007 to 2017 (2025)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
The Association Between Dietary Supplement Use and COVID-19 Symptoms (2025)

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Bias analyses to investigate the impact of differential participation: Application to a birth defects case‐control study (2023)

4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Fever and antibiotic use in maternal urinary tract infections during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects: Findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2023)

5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Periconceptional intakes of methyl donors and other micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism may further reduce the risk of neural tube defects in offspring: a United States population–based case-control study of women meeting the folic acid recommendations (2023)

18 citations DOI OpenAlex
Maternal occupational exposure to selected organic and chlorinated solvents and delivery of small‐for‐gestational age or preterm infants (2023)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Intellectual disabilities and autism among children with congenital heart defects, Western Australia, 1983–2010 (2023)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic on Supplement Usage and Its Combination with Self-Medication within the State of Arkansas (2022)

11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Spatially refined time-varying reproduction numbers of SARS-CoV-2 in Arkansas and Kentucky and their relationship to population size and public health policy, March – November, 2020 (2021)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex