Gestational age, birth weight, and perinatal death among births to norwegian farmers, 1967-1991

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 329-338

  Kristensen, Patter ^a   Irgens, Lorentz M ^b   Andersen, Aage ^c   Bye, Anne Snellingen ^d   Sundheim, Leif ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^e Norwegian Crop Research Institute   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fetal death; Gestational age; Infant mortality; Mycotoxins; Pesticides; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; PESTICIDE;

ABORTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PEST CONTROL; PREMATURE LABOR; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0030796208     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009274     Document Type: Article

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