Climate extremes and the length of gestation

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1449-1453

  Dadvand, Payam ^a,b,c   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,b,c   Sartini, Claudio ^a,b,c   Figueras, Francesc ^d   Vrijheid, Martine ^a,b,c   de Nazelle, Audrey ^a,b,c   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c,e   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,c  

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

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate change; Gestational age; Global warming; Hot temperature; Perinatal mortality; Pregnancy outcome; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLIMATE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80053534279     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003241     Document Type: Article

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