A population-based case-control study of extreme summer temperature and birth defects

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1443-1449

  van Zutphen, Alissa R ^a   Lin, Shao ^a,b   Fletcher, Barbara A ^a,b   Hwang, Syni An ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Climate change; Congenital cataracts; Heat; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INFANT; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW YORK; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84867172255     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104671     Document Type: Article

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