Prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution and ultrasound measures of fetal growth in the INMA Sabadell cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 705-711

  Aguilera, Inmaculada ^a,b,c,d   Garcia Esteban, Raquel ^a,b,c   Iñiguez, Carmen ^c,e   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,c   Rodríguez, Àgueda ^f   Paez, Montserrat ^g   Ballester, Ferran ^c,e   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e Centre for Public Health Research   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

^g Centre d'Atenció Primària Sant Fèlix   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Aromatic hydrocarbons; Cohort study; Exposure assessment; Fetal growth; INMA study; Land use regression; Nitrogen dioxide; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; META XYLENE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPAIN; TRANSPORTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951741263     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901228     Document Type: Article

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