Low-level exposure to air pollution and risk of adverse birth outcomes in Hillsborough County, Florida

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 490-494

  Mainolfi, Maria B ^a   Salihu, Hamisu M ^b,c   Wilson, Roneé E ^b   Mbah, Alfred K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LEAD; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WEATHER;

EID: 84879151142     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31828df013     Document Type: Article

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