Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and fetal growth

Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 729-737

  Hoffman, Caroline S ^a,h   Mendola, Pauline ^b   Savitz, David A ^c   Herring, Amy H ^a,d   Loomis, Dana ^e   Hartmann, Katherine E ^f   Singer, Philip C ^g   Weinberg, Howard S ^g   Olshan, Andrew F ^g  

^a IL   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DRINKING WATER; HALIDE; TRIHALOMETHANE; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 50549098552     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181812bd4     Document Type: Article

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