Ambient air pollution and low birth weight in Connecticut and Massachusetts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1118-1125

  Bell, Michelle L ^a   Ebisu, Keita ^b   Belanger, Kathleen ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Birth weight; Carbon monoxide; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; PM10; PM2.5; Pregnancy; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMOKING HABIT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASSACHUSETTS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PREGNANCY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34548244622     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9759     Document Type: Article

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