Perfluorinated compounds in umbilical cord blood and adverse birth outcomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Mei Huei ^a,b   Ha, Eun Hee ^c   Wen, Ting Wen ^a   Su, Yi Ning ^d,e   Lien, Guang Wen ^a   Chen, Chia Yang ^a   Chen, Pau Chung ^a,e   Hsieh, Wu Shiun ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CARDINAL TIEN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEFLUOROUNDECANOIC ACID; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUORONONANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTYL SULFONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TAIWAN; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864573397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042474     Document Type: Article

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