Birth outcomes and maternal residential proximity to natural gas development in rural Colorado

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 412-417

  McKenzie, Lisa M ^a   Guo, Ruixin ^a   Witter, Roxana Z ^a   Savitz, David A ^b   Newman, Lee S ^a   Adgate, John L ^a  

^a Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; NATURAL GAS; TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GAS FIELD; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK; TOXICITY;

CLEFT PALATE; COLORADO; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NATURAL GAS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84897383185     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306722     Document Type: Article

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