Chlorination disinfection byproducts in water and their association with adverse reproductive outcomes: A review

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-85

  Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b   Toledano, Mireille B ^a   Eaton, Naomi E ^a   Fawell, John ^c   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Water Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Disinfection byproducts; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHLORINATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG MALFORMATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; WATER TREATMENT;

CHLORINE; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034065150     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.2.73     Document Type: Review

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