Paternal occupational group and risk of offspring with neural tube defects

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 328-333

  Shaw, Gary M ^a   Nelson, Verne ^a   Olshan, Andrew F ^b  

^a California Birth Defects Monitoring Program   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; MULTIVITAMIN; SOLVENT;

ACCURACY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CODING; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; OCCUPATION; OPERATOR; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGENY; RACE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINA BIFIDA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANENCEPHALY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 0036815035     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2002.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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