Air pollution and stillbirth risk: Exposure to airborne particulate matter during pregnancy is associated with fetal death

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  DeFranco, Emily ^a,b   Hall, Eric ^a   Hossain, Monir ^a   Chen, Aimin ^b   Haynes, Erin N ^b   Jones, David ^a   Ren, Sheng ^a,c   Lu, Long ^a   Muglia, Louis ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OHIO; PREGNANCY;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84925662845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120594     Document Type: Article

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