A register-based study of the association between air pollutants and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy among the Japanese population

Environmental Research

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 644-650

  Michikawa, Takehiro ^a   Morokuma, Seiichi ^b   Fukushima, Kotaro ^c   Ueda, Kayo ^a,d   Takeuchi, Ayano ^a,e   Kato, Kiyoko ^b   Nitta, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

First trimester; Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy; Japan; Ozone; Register based

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATERNAL HEALTH; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HYPERTENSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PATIENT MONITORING; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREECLAMPSIA SUPERIMPOSED; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; PREGNANCY; TOXICITY;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; OKINAWA ISLAND; OKINAWA ISLANDS; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84940559447     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.08.024     Document Type: Article

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