Maternal residential proximity to hazardous waste sites and risk for selected congenital malformations

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 347-354

  Croen, Lisa A ^a,c   Shaw, Gary M ^a   Sanbonmatsu, Lisa ^a   Selvin, Steve ^b   Buffler, Patricia A ^b  

^a March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Birth Defects Monitoring Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Chemical contamination; Conotruncal heart defects; Dumpsite; Neural tube defects; Oral cleft defects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DUMPING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLEFT PALATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYANIDES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0030994927     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199707000-00001     Document Type: Article

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