Environmental Factors Implicated in the Causation of Adverse Pregnancy Outcome

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 240-242

  Triche, Elizabeth Westerlund ^a   Hossain, Nazli ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

low birth weight; mercury; neuroteratogen; nicotine; pesticide; pregnancy; video display terminals

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; MERCURY; NICOTINE; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PESTICIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; JOB STRESS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRESS; TERATOGENICITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SMOKING; STRESS;

EID: 34548364218     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2007.07.013     Document Type: Review

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