Air pollution exposure during pregnancy, ultrasound measures of fetal growth, and adverse birth outcomes: A prospective cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-156

  van den Hooven, Edith H ^a,b   Pierik, Frank H ^b   de Kluizenaar, Yvonne ^b   Willemsen, Sten P ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   van Ratingen, Sjoerd W ^b   Zandveld, Peter Y J ^b   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Miedema, Henk M E ^b   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Birth weight; Dispersion modeling; Fetal growth; Intrauterine growth restriction; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; Pregnancy; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84855218506     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003316     Document Type: Article

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