Maternal use of hot tub and major structural birth defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 836-841

  Duong, Hao T ^a   Shahrukh Hashmi, Syed ^b   Ramadhani, Tunu ^c   Canfield, Mark A ^d   Scheuerle, Angela ^d,e   Kim Waller, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c Texas Education Agency   (United States)

^d TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^e Tesserae Genetics Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Congenital malformations; Gastroschisis; Hot tub; Hyperthermia; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; MOTHER; OMPHALOCELE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SPINA BIFIDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATHS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052557668     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20831     Document Type: Article

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