Locally derived traffic-related air pollution and fetal growth restriction: A retrospective cohort study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 815-822

  Pereira, Gavin ^a   Cook, Angus G ^b   Haggar, Fatima ^b,c   Bower, Carol ^a   Nassar, Natasha ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LAND USE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867734742     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100509     Document Type: Article

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