Cocaine use during pregnancy and intrauterine growth retardation: New insights based on maternal hair tests

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 112-119

  Kuhn, Louise ^a,b   Kline, Jennie ^a,c   Ng, Stephen ^b   Levin, Bruce ^b   Susser, Mervyn ^a,b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cocaine; Epidemiologic methods; Infant, premature; Pregnancy; Pregnancy outcome; Substance related disorders

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG USE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAIR; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; SELF REPORT; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAIR; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 0034662201     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.2.112     Document Type: Article

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