Birth weight and fetal growth in infants born to female hairdressers and their sisters

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 198-204

  Axmon, A ^a   Rylander, L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BARBERING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL MACROSOMIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK; SIBLINGS;

EID: 61849125932     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.039784     Document Type: Article

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