Differences in birth weight associated with the 2008 Beijing olympics air pollution reduction: Results from a natural experiment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 880-887

  Rich, David Q ^a   Liu, Kaibo ^b   Zhang, Jinliang ^c   Thurston, Sally W ^d   Stevens, Timothy P ^a   Pan, Ying ^b   Kane, Cathleen ^a   Weinberger, Barry ^e   Ohman Strickland, Pamela ^f   Woodruff, Tracey J ^g   Duan, Xiaoli ^c   Assibey Mensah, Vanessa ^a   Zhang, Junfeng ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPORT; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BEIJING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARBON MONOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 84940777624     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408795     Document Type: Article

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