Birth weight and sex of children and the correlation to the body burden of PCDDs/PCDFs and PCBs of the mother

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Vartiainen, Terttu ^a,b   Jaakkola, Jouni J K ^c,d   Saarikoski, Seppo ^e   Tuomisto, Jouko ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Age; Birth weight; BMI; Body mass index; Diet; Dioxins; Human milk; Modeling; Non ortho PCBs; Parity; PCDDs PCDFs

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; FAT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY BURDEN; BODY MASS; BREAST MILK; DIET; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0031938836     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9810661     Document Type: Article

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