Ambient Formaldehyde Levels and Allergic Disorders Among Japanese Pregnant Women: Baseline Data From the Osaka Maternal and Child Health Study

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Matsunaga, Ichiro ^a   Miyake, Yoshihiro ^b   Yoshida, Toshiaki ^a   Miyamoto, Shoichi ^c   Ohya, Yukihiro ^d   Sasaki, Satoshi ^e   Tanaka, Keiko ^b   Oda, Hajime ^a   Ishiko, Osamu ^c   Hirota, Yoshio ^c  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cross sectional Studies; Eczema; Japan; Pregnant Women; Rhinitis

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; JAPAN; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 36549060548     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.07.095     Document Type: Article

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