Maternal flu or fever, medication use, and neural tube defects: A population-based case-control study in northern China

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 295-300

  Li, Zhiwen ^a   Ren, Aiguo ^a   Liu, Jianmeng ^a   Pei, Lijun ^a   Zhang, Le ^a   Guo, Zhanying ^b   Li, Zhu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b Department of Maternal and Child Health   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Antipyretics; Fever; Flu; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINA BIFIDA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; POLYPHARMACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADULT; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POLYPHARMACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 34250856436     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20342     Document Type: Article

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