Seveso Women's Health Study: A study of the effects of 2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin on reproductive health

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 9-11, 2000, Pages 1247-1253

  Eskenazi, Brenda ^a   Mocarelli, Paolo ^b   Warner, Marcella ^a   Samuels, Steven ^a,c   Vercellini, Paolo ^d   Olive, David ^e   Needham, Larry ^f   Patterson, Donald ^f   Brambilla, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; AGING; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTION; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033997658     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00376-8     Document Type: Article

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