Selected environmental risk factors and congenital heart defects

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 827-832

  Kučiene, Renata ^a   Dulskiene, Virginija ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Environmental risk factors; Lifestyle factors; Maternal illness

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 58749106977     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44110104     Document Type: Review

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