Traffic-related air pollution and pregnancy outcomes in the Dutch ABCD birth cohort study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-43

  Gehring, Ulrike ^a   Van Eijsden, Manon ^b   Dijkema, Marieke B A ^a,b   Van Der Wal, Marcel F ^b   Fischer, Paul ^c   Brunekreef, Bert ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650963766     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.053132     Document Type: Article

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