Maternal smoking and undescended testes: Reaching a tipping point

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-198

  Werler, Martha ^a,b  

^a Sloan Epidemiology Unit   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW;

CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKE; SMOKING;

EID: 33847027999     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000254697.64626.1f     Document Type: Review

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