Lead levels in domestic water supplies and neural tube defects in Glasgow

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-53

  Macdonell, J E ^a   Campbell, H ^b   Stone, D H ^c  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Folic acid; Lead; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

LEAD; WATER;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER SUPPLY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SCOTLAND; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0034104921     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.82.1.50     Document Type: Article

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