Geographic analysis of individual and environmental risk factors for hypospadias births

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 887-894

  Winston, Jennifer J ^a,b   Meyer, Robert E ^c,d   Emch, Michael E ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c State Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Hypospadias; Moran's I; North Carolina; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARENTING EDUCATION; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; AGRICULTURE; BLACK PERSON; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84911976118     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23306     Document Type: Article

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