Neonatal neurodevelopment and prenatal exposure to dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE): A cohort study in Mexico

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 609-614

  Bahena Medina, Lilia Araceli ^a   Torres Sánchez, Luisa ^a   Schnaas, Lourdes ^b   Cebrián, Mariano E ^c   Chávez, Carmen Hernández ^b   Osorio Valencia, Erika ^b   Hernández, Rosa María García ^c   López Carrillo, Lizbeth ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brazelton; DDE exposure; Mexico; neurodevelopment; organochlorines; the Bayley Scales of Infant Development

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MEXICO; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80054823338     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2011.25     Document Type: Article

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