Prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes around hazardous industrial sites in Cumbria, north-west England, 1950-93

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 250-255

  Dummer, Trevor J B ^a   Dickinson, Heather O ^a   Parker, Louise ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL DEATH; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCESS MONITORING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0037817450     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2003.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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