Prenatal insecticide exposures and birth weight and length among an urban minority cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1125-1132

  Whyatt, Robin M ^a   Rauh, Virginia ^a   Barr, Dana B ^b   Camann, David E ^c   Andrews, Howard F ^a   Garfinkel, Robin ^a   Hoepner, Lori A ^a   Diaz, Diurka ^a   Dietrich, Jessica ^a   Reyes, Andria ^a   Tang, Deliang ^a   Kinney, Patrick L ^a   Perera, Frederica P ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth length; Birth weight; Insecticides; Minority; Prenatal; Residential; Urban; Women

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; DIMPYLATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PROPOXUR;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY HEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS GROWTH; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MINORITY GROUP; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 3543069454     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6641     Document Type: Article

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