Paternal work in the power industry: Effects on children at delivery

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-117

  Siv Tornqvist R N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FATHER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEOPLASMS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0344157331     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199802000-00006     Document Type: Article

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