Maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents during early pregnancy and risks of neural tube defects and orofacial clefts

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 493-499

  Desrosiers, Tania A ^a,b   Lawson, Christina C ^c   Meyer, Robert E ^b   Richardson, David B ^a   Daniels, Julie L ^a   Waters, Martha A ^c   Van Wijngaarden, Edwin ^d   Langlois, Peter H ^e   Romitti, Paul A ^f   Correa, Adolfo ^g   Olshan, A ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b State Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SMOKING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SPINA BIFIDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANENCEPHALY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MOUTH ABNORMALITIES; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOLVENTS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84862565723     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100245     Document Type: Article

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