Environmental contaminants and pregnancy outcomes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Windham, Gayle ^a   Fenster, Laura ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

chemicals; environmental exposures; environmental tobacco smoke; low birth weight; pesticides; Pregnancy outcomes; preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEAVY METAL; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; SOLVENT; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 41749110946     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.041     Document Type: Review

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