Using satellite-based spatiotemporal resolved air temperature exposure to study the association between ambient air temperature and birth outcomes in Massachusetts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1053-1058

  Kloog, Itai ^a,b   Melly, Steven J ^b   Coull, Brent A ^b   Nordio, Francesco ^b   Schwartz, Joel D ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943279703     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1308075     Document Type: Article

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