Association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution and congenital heart disease: A register-based spatiotemporal analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-182

  Dadvand, Payam ^a,c   Rankin, Judith ^a   Rushton, Stephen ^a,b   Pless Mulloli, Tanja ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

air pollution; congenital; congenital abnormalities; heart defects; maternal exposure; spatiotemporal analysis; sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; SMOKE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SIMULATION; SMOKE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; SMOKE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650642789     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq342     Document Type: Article

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