Trends in the human sex odds at birth in Europe and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 593-599

  Scherb, Hagen ^a   Voigt, Kristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical ecological study; Exposure response relation; Low level ionizing radiation; Male proportion; Radiation epidemiology; Radiation induced genetic effects; Sex ratio; Spatial temporal logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EUROPE; FALLOUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; BIRTH RATE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SEX RATIO; STILLBIRTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248576437     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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