Association between the plasma/whole blood lead ratio and history of spontaneous abortion: A nested cross-sectional study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lamadrid Figueroa, Héctor ^a   Téllez Rojo, Martha M ^a   Hernández Avila, Mauricio ^b   Trejo Valdivia, Belem ^a   Solano González, Maritsa ^a,c   Mercado Garcia, Adriana ^a   Smith, Donald ^d   Hu, Howard ^e   Wright, Robert O ^f  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b Ministry of Health   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; METABOLISM; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEAD; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLASMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 37449014448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-7-22     Document Type: Article

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