Maternal occupational pesticide exposure and risk of hypospadias in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 927-936

  Rocheleau, Carissa M ^a,b   Romitti, Paul A ^a   Sanderson, Wayne T ^a   Sun, Lixian ^a   Lawson, Christina C ^b   Waters, Martha A ^b   Stewart, Patricia A ^c   Olney, Richard S ^d   Reefhuis, Jennita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c Stewart Exposure Assessments LLC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrochemicals; Birth defects; Endocrine disruption; Hypospadias; Pesticides; Urogenital malformation

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TELECONSULTATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855147845     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.22860     Document Type: Article

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