Risk of limb birth defects and mother's home proximity to cornfields

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4447-4451

  Ochoa Acuña, Hugo ^a   Carbajo, Cristina ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Club foot; Cohort study; Environmental epidemiology; Limb deformities; Polydactyly; Spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECTS; CLUB FOOT; COHORT STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIMB DEFORMITIES; POLYDACTYLY; SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY;

CROPS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RURAL AREAS;

DEFECTS;

ABNORMALITY; ARABLE LAND; CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH RISK; LOGISTICS; MAIZE; PREGNANCY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOYBEAN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CLUBFOOT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORN; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOYBEAN; SYNDACTYLY; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67349115186     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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