Increased risks of infant mortality and of deaths due to congenital malformation in the offspring of male electronics workers

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-124

  Sung, Tzu I ^a   Wang, Jung Der ^a,b   Chen, Pau Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac defects; Infant mortality; Male mediated developmental toxicity; Malformation; Offspring; Organic solvents

Indexed keywords

ARHINENCEPHALY; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ELECTRONICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATHER; FEMALE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INSURANCE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MICROCEPHALY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINA BIFIDA; STENOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949173455     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20496     Document Type: Article

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