Adverse pregnancy outcomes near landfill sites in Cumbria, northwest England, 1950-1993

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 692-698

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

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congenital anomalies; Epidemiology; Landfills; Neonatal death; Pollution; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DOMESTIC WASTE; HUMAN; LANDFILL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEWBORN DEATH; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 11944257197     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.58.11.692-698     Document Type: Article

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