Chernobyl: Relationship between the number of missing newborn boys and the level of radiation in the Czech regions

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1801-1806

  Peterka, Miroslav ^a   Peterková, Renata ^a   Likovsky, Zbyněḱ ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atomic power station; Birth seasonality; Ecologic catastrophe; Newborn sex ratio; Pregnancy outcome; Radiation; Radioiodine; Raining; Spontaneous abortion

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SEASON; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BIRTH RATE; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SEASONS; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 38749137788     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10779     Document Type: Article

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