Early pregnancy agricultural pesticide exposures and risk of gastroschisis among offspring in the San Joaquin Valley of California

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 686-694

  Shaw, Gary M ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Roberts, Eric ^b   Kegley, Susan E ^c   Padula, Amy ^a   English, Paul B ^d   Carmichael, Suzan L ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Pesticide Research Institute   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall; Birth defects; Congenital abnormalities; Endocrine disruptors; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; PESTICIDE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERATOGENESIS; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; FETUS; MEXICAN AMERICAN; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK; SMOKING; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLIC ACID; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84926121026     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23263     Document Type: Article

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