Chlorination disinfection by-products and risk of congenital anomalies in England and Wales

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-222

  Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b   Toledano, Mireille B ^a   Bennett, James ^a   Best, Nicky ^a   Hambly, Peter ^a   de Hoogh, Cornelis ^a   Wellesley, Diana ^c   Boyd, Patricia A ^d   Abramsky, Lenore ^c,e   Dattani, Nirupa ^f   Fawell, John ^g   Briggs, David ^a   Jarup, Lars ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c British Isles Network of Congenital Anomaly Registers   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Congenital anomalies; Disinfection by products; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROSCHISIS; GENDER; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DISINFECTION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 40549141446     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10636     Document Type: Article

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