Outdoor air pollution, low birth weight, and prematurity

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-176

  Bobak, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Birth; Epidemiology; Low birth weight; Pregnancy; Premature birth

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0034100598     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108173     Document Type: Article

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