Ten years of progress in the Hokkaido birth cohort study on environment and children's health: Cohort profile - Updated 2013

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 429-450

  Kishi, Reiko ^a   Kobayashi, Sachiko ^a   Ikeno, Tamiko ^a   Araki, Atsuko ^a   Miyashita, Chihiro ^a   Itoh, Sachiko ^a   Sasaki, Seiko ^b   Okada, Emiko ^b   Kobayashi, Sumitaka ^b   Kashino, Ikuko ^b   Itoh, Kumiko ^b   Nakajima, Sonomi ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth cohort; Gender difference; Gene environment interaction; PCB dioxin; PFCs (PFAAs)

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; COTININE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A; CYTOCHROME P450 1A2; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; DIOXIN; FLAME RETARDANT; FOLIC ACID; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PHTHALIC ACID;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFECTION; JAPAN; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYDACTYLY; SMOKING;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84889088487     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-013-0357-3     Document Type: Article

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