Prenatal Exposure to Polybrominated Flame Retardants and Fetal Growth in the INMA Cohort (Spain)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 10108-10116

  Lopez Espinosa, Maria Jose ^a,b   Costa, Olga ^a   Vizcaino, Esther ^c,d   Murcia, Mario ^a,b   Fernandez Somoano, Ana ^b,c   Iñiguez, Carmen ^a,b   Llop, Sabrina ^a,b   Grimalt, Joan O ^d   Ballester, Ferran ^a,b   Tardon, Adonina ^b,c  

^a Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Region   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; FETAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIPARIETAL DIAMETERS; FETAL WEIGHT; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCES; MATERNAL SERUM; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; UMBILICAL CORDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

FLAME RETARDANT; POLYBROMINATED FLAME RETARDANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL EFFECT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERUM; WEIGHT;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPAIN;

SPAIN;

ADULT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPAIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84939603458     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01793     Document Type: Article

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