Traffic-related air pollution and congenital anomalies in Barcelona

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-323

  Schembari, Anna ^a,b,c   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b   Salvador, Joaquin ^b,d   de Nazelle, Audrey ^a,b,e   Cirach, Marta ^a,b   Dadvand, Payam ^a,b   Beelen, Rob ^f   Hoek, Gerard ^f   Basagaña, Xavier ^a,b   Vrijheid, Martine ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d Servei de sistema d'Informació Sanitaria Agencia de SalutPública de Barcelona ^*  (Spain)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEASONS; SPAIN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895192013     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306802     Document Type: Article

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