Effects of maternal work activity during pregnancy on infant malformations

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 829-834

  Lin, Shao ^a   Gensburg, Lenore ^a   Marshall, Elizabeth G ^a   Roth, Geraldine B ^a   Dlugosz, Lawrence ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLEFT PALATE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEW YORK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; WORK;

EID: 0031698553     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199809000-00013     Document Type: Article

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