Maternal exposure to air pollution and birth outcomes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-558

  Malmqvist, Ebba ^a   Rignell Hydbom, Anna ^a   Tinnerberg, Håkan ^a   Björk, Jonas ^a   Stroh, Emilie ^a   Jakobsson, Kristina ^a   Rittner, Ralf ^a   Rylander, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Fetal growth restriction; LBW; Low birth weight; NOx; Pregnancy; Preterm births; Preterm delivery; SGA

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 79955555694     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002564     Document Type: Article

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