Evaluation of exposure to contaminated drinking water and specific birth defects and childhood cancers at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: A case-control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ruckart, Perri Zeitz ^a   Bove, Frank J ^a   Maslia, Morris ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood cancers; Environmental epidemiology; Neural tube defects; Trichloroethylene; Water

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; TAP WATER; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CANCER; CHILD HEALTH; DRINKING WATER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRECISION;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING; EXPOSURE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP; MILITARY PHENOMENA; MOTHER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARENTAL AGE; PATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NORTH CAROLINA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891756815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-104     Document Type: Article

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