Residential exposure to traffic and spontaneous abortion

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1939-1944

  Green, Rochelle S ^a   Malig, Brian ^a   Windham, Gayle C ^b   Fenster, Laura ^b   Ostro, Bart ^a   Swan, Shanna ^c  

^a California EPA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cohort; Geographic information system; Pregnancy; Spontaneous abortion; Vehicular traffic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL STRESS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRAFFIC;

EID: 75349088939     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.09008943     Document Type: Article

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