Lead toxicity during pregnancy

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 304-309

  Weizsaecker, Katharina ^a  

^a JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHELATING AGENT; DIMERCAPROL; EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; LEAD; PENICILLAMINE; SUCCIMER; UNITHIOL;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CHELATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMERGENCY; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MATERNAL BLOOD; MECONIUM ILEUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0242496247     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(03)00074-X     Document Type: Article

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