Preconception maternal and paternal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and birth size: The LIFE study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-94

  Robledo, Candace A ^a   Yeung, Edwina ^a   Mendola, Pauline ^a   Sundaram, Rajeshwari ^a   Maisog, Jose ^a   Sweeney, Anne M ^b   Barr, Dana Boyd ^c   Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; BODY SIZE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TEXAS;

EID: 84920093855     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1308016     Document Type: Article

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