Assessing local determinants of neural tube defects in the Heshun Region, Shanxi Province, China

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Jin Feng ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Christakos, George ^b   Liao, Yi Lan ^a   Gu, Xue ^c   Zheng, Xiao Ying ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Special Mechanical and Electronical Instruments   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

CHINA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77649214827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-52     Document Type: Article

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