Physically demanding work, fetal growth and the risk of adverse birth outcomes. The Generation R Study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 543-550

  Snijder, Claudia A ^a   Brand, Teus ^b   Jaddoe, Vincent ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Burdorf, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIFTING EFFORT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANUAL LABOR; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIFT WORKER; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STANDING; WALKING; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL WEIGHT; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MOTHERS; MOVEMENT; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; WALKING; WORK;

EID: 84864081842     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100615     Document Type: Article

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