Large prospective birth cohort studies on environmental contaminants and child health - Goals, challenges, limitations and needs

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 318-324

  Luo, Zhong Cheng ^a   Liu, Jian Meng ^b   Fraser, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHLORPHENOTANE; LEAD; MERCURY; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SMOKING; TERATOGENICITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 72449143590     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.044     Document Type: Article

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