Maternal cadmium exposure during pregnancy and size at birth: A prospective cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-289

  Kippler, Maria ^a   Tofail, Fahmida ^a,b   Gardner, Renee ^a   Rahman, Anisur ^b   Hamadani, Jena ^b   Bottai, Matteo ^a   Vahter, Marie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Birth weight; Cadmium; Sex; Urine

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH LENGTH; BIRTH SIZE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL STATUS; THORAX CIRCUMFERENCE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CADMIUM; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; THORAX; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856706368     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103711     Document Type: Article

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