Extreme winter temperature and birth defects: A population-based case-control study

Environmental Research

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Van Zutphen, Alissa R ^a,b   Hsu, Wan Hsiang ^a,b   Lin, Shao ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Climate change; Cold; Temperature; Winter

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

BIRTH RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD FRONT; CONTROL SYSTEM; EXTREME EVENT; HEALTH RISK; PREGNANCY; SAMPLING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY; WINTER;

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIP DISLOCATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOSPADIAS; INTESTINE ATRESIA; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MICROCEPHALY; OMPHALOCELE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PYLORUS STENOSIS; SMOKING; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VAPOR PRESSURE; WINTER; YOUNG ADULT; BIRTH DEFECTS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CI; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MALE; NEWBORN; OR; PREGNANCY; RISK; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH DEFECTS; CI; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ODDS RATIO; OR; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

ADULT; AORTIC COARCTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLD TEMPERATURE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW YORK; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84895169052     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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