Urinary biomarkers of prenatal atrazine exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the pelagie birth cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1034-1041

  Chevrier, Cécile ^a,b   Limon, Gwendolina ^c   Monfort, Christine ^a,b   Rouget, Florence ^a,b,d   Garlantézec, Ronan ^a,b,e   Petit, Claire ^a,b   Durand, Gaël ^c   Cordier, Sylvaine ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c TECHNOPÔLE BREST IROISE   (France)

^d Bien Naître en Ille et Vilaine Perinatal Network   (France)

^e Public Health Department   (France)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Environmental exposure; Fetal growth; Herbicides

Indexed keywords

ACETOCHLOR; ALACHLOR; ATRAZINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METOLACHLOR; SIMAZINE;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

ACETANILIDES; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADULT; ATRAZINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FRANCE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAZINES; YOUNG ADULT;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960053959     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002775     Document Type: Article

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