Literature review of meta-analyses and pooled analyses of disinfection by-products in drinking water and cancer and reproductive health outcomes

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 1048, Issue , 2010, Pages 483-496

  Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b   Grellier, James ^b   Iszatt, Nina ^b   Martinez, David ^a   Rahman, Md Bayzidur ^c   Villanueva, Cristina M ^a  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATION; DISEASES; DISINFECTION;

CHLORINATED WATERS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT;

HEALTH;

EID: 84905570897     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: 19475918     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2010-1048.ch024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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