Maternal residential proximity to waste sites and industrial facilities and conotruncal heart defects in offspring

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 321-331

  Langlois, Peter H ^a   Brender, Jean D ^b   Suarez, Lucina ^a   Zhan, F Benjamin ^c   Mistry, Jatin H ^a   Scheuerle, Angela ^d   Moody, Karen ^a  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tesserae Genetics Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Congenital heart disease; Environmental pollution; Toxic waste sites

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DELIVERY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS DEATH; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PROGENY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 66749182221     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2009.01045.x     Document Type: Article

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