Neural tube defects on the Texas-Mexico border: What we've learned in the 20 years since the Brownsville cluster

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 882-892

  Suarez, Lucina ^a   Felkner, Marilyn ^a   Brender, Jean D ^b   Canfield, Mark ^a   Zhu, Huiping ^c   Hendricks, Katherine A ^d  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Environment; Folic acid; Fumonisins; Mexican American; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLATE RECEPTOR 1; FOLIC ACID; FUMONISIN; HEAVY METAL; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); NITRATE; NITRITE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

DIARRHEA; FEVER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISPANIC; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INTESTINE PARASITE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MATERNAL STRESS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICRONUTRIENTS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; VITAMINS;

EID: 84869385823     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23070     Document Type: Review

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