Effects of maternal dioxin exposure on newborn size at birth among Japanese mother-infant pairs

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-95

  Tawara, Kenji ^a   Nishijo, Muneko ^a   Honda, Ryumon ^a   Maruzeni, Shoko ^a   Seto, Toshio ^b   Kido, Teruhiko ^c   Saito, Shigeru ^d   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin; Birth size; Breast milk; Dioxins; Newborn

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN; FURAN; HEXACHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; PENTACHLORODIBENZOFURAN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOMER; JAPANESE; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77149170942     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-008-0061-x     Document Type: Article

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