Residential exposure to traffic in California and childhood cancer

Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-12

  Reynolds, Peggy ^a   Von Behren, Julie ^a   Gunier, Robert B ^a   Goldberg, Debbie E ^b   Hertz, Andrew ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c IMPACT ASSESSMENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; REGISTER; RISK; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 1542715782     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000101749.28283.de     Document Type: Article

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