Metals exposure and risk of small-for-gestational age birth in a Canadian birth cohort: The MIREC study

Environmental Research

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 430-439

  Thomas, Shari ^a   Arbuckle, Tye E ^b   Fisher, Mandy ^b   Fraser, William D ^c   Ettinger, Adrienne ^d   King, Will ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Health Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biomonitoring; Cadmium; Lead; Mercury; Pregnancy cohort study; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENOBETAINE; CACODYLIC ACID; CADMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL;

ARSENIC; BIOMONITORING; BLOOD; CADMIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMORPHISM; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; TOXIC MATERIAL; URINE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL SMOKING; PARITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL STATUS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; URINALYSIS; ADULT; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

CANADA;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METALS; ONTARIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84930651577     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.04.018     Document Type: Article

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