Environmental factors, reproductive history, and selective fertility in farmers' sibships

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 817-825

  Kristensen, Petter ^a   Irgens, Lorentz M ^b   Bjerkedal, Tor ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

agriculture; effect modifiers (epidemiology); environmental exposure; epidemiologic methods; fertility; gestational age; reproductive history

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION RISK; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION FERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RURAL POPULATION; SELECTIVE FERTILITY;

NORWAY;

EID: 0030613838     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009175     Document Type: Article

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