The use of pesticides in a Polish rural population and its effect on birth weight

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 614-620

  Hanke, Wojciech ^a   Romitti, Paul ^b   Fuortes, Laurence ^b   Sobala, Wojciech ^a   Mikulski, Marek ^b  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Low birth weight; Pesticides; Pre term delivery; SGA

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ANILIDE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COPPER DERIVATIVE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PHENOXYACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRETHROID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UREA DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP MANAGEMENT; DELIVERY; FARMING SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; ORCHARD MANAGEMENT; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; POLAND; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0344513323     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-003-0471-4     Document Type: Article

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