Organochlorine pesticide levels in maternal serum and risk of neural tube defects in offspring in Shanxi Province, China: A case-control study

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 1037-1043

  Wang, Bin ^a   Yi, Deqing ^a   Jin, Lei ^a   Li, Zhiwen ^a   Liu, Jufen ^a   Zhang, Yali ^a   Qiu, Xinghua ^c   Liu, Wenxin ^b   Tao, Shu ^b   Ren, Aiguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Case control study; Maternal serum; Neural tube defect; Organochlorine pesticides; Risk

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; PESTICIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISKS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CASE-CONTROL STUDY; CONTROL GROUPS; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; MATERNAL SERUM; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

BODY FLUIDS;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; SHANXI;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84901978559     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.075     Document Type: Article

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