Air pollution and congenital heart defects

Environmental Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-34

  Agay Shay, Keren ^a   Friger, Michael ^b   Linn, Shai ^a,c   Peled, Ammatzia ^a   Amitai, Yona ^d   Peretz, Chava ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Birth defects; CI; CO; Congenital anomalies; Congenital heart defects; Congenital malformations; NO2; O3; OR; PM10; PM2.5; SO2

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GIS; HEALTH RISK; MODELING; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CARBON MONOXIDE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

ISRAEL; TEL AVIV;

EID: 84878382219     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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