Prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution and risk of early childhood cancers

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1233-1239

  Ghosh, Jo Kay C ^a   Heck, Julia E ^a   Cockburn, Myles ^a   Su, Jason ^a   Jerrett, Michael ^a   Ritz, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; epidemiology; leukemia; neoplasms; retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANCER; CHILD HEALTH; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH RISK; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BILATERAL RETINOBLASTOMA; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTHPLACE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LAND USE REGRESSION MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PARITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINOBLASTOMA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SOCIAL STATUS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AIR POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885785643     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt129     Document Type: Article

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