Residential agricultural pesticide exposures and risk of neural tube defects and orofacial clefts among offspring in the San Joaquin Valley of California

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 740-748

  Yang, Wei ^a   Carmichael, Suzan L ^a   Roberts, Eric M ^a   Kegley, Susan E ^a   Padula, Amy M ^a   English, Paul B ^a   Shaw, Gary M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

birth defects; congenital abnormalities; endocrine disruptors; environment; pesticides; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

2,4 DEXTRO DIMETHYLAMINE; ALPHA (PARA NONYLPHENYL) OMEGA HYDROXYPOLY(OXYETHYLENE)PHOSPHATE ESTER; BROMOXYNIL OCTANOATE; DIMETHYLAMINE; IMIDACLOPRID; METHOMYL; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; TRIFLURALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH DEFECTS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENT; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY;

AGRICULTURE; ANENCEPHALY; CALIFORNIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 84895871965     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt324     Document Type: Article

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