The Navigation guide—evidence-based medicine meets environmental health: Systematic review of human evidence for PFOA effects on fetal growth

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1028-1039

  Johnson, Paula I ^a   Sutton, Patrice ^a   Atchley, Dylan S ^a   Koustas, Erica ^b   Lam, Juleen ^b   Sen, Saunak ^c   Robinson, Karen A ^d,e   Axelrad, Daniel A ^b   Woodruff, Tracey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; FLUOROCARBON; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CASE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS GROWTH; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; LEGAL EVIDENCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NAVIGATION GUIDE METHODOLOGY; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CAPRYLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84907657900     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307893     Document Type: Review

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