Small-for-gestational-age newborns of female refinery workers exposed to nickel

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 327-338

  Vaktskjold, Arild ^a,b,e   Talykova, Ljudmila Vasiljevna ^c   Chashchin, Valerij Petrovitsj ^c   Odland, Jon Öyvind ^b   Nieboer, Evert ^b,d  

^a Nordisk Ministerrad   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORTH WEST PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fetal growth retardation; Nickel; Registry; Russia; Small for gestational age infant

Indexed keywords

NICKEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; URINALYSIS;

EID: 37649012715     PISSN: 12321087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10001-007-0034-0     Document Type: Article

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