Maternal Heat Exposure and Neural Tube Defects

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 268, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 882-885

  Milunsky, Aubrey ^a   Ulcickas, Marianne ^a   Rothman, Kenneth J ^a   Willett, Walter ^b   Jick, Susan S ^a   Jick, Hershel ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; HOT WATER;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS RISK; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SAUNA; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAT; HUMAN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEW ENGLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026650360     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03490070064043     Document Type: Article

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