Ambient air pollution and newborn size and adiposity at birth: Differences by maternal ethnicity (the born in bradford study cohort)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1208-1215

  Schembari, Anna ^a,b,c   De Hoogh, Kees ^e   Pedersen, Marie ^a,b,c,f   Dadvand, Payam ^a,b,c   Martinez, David ^a,b,c   Hoek, Gerard ^g   Petherick, Emily S ^h,i   Wright, John ^h   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f INSERM   (France)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h BRADFORD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; PAKISTAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NITROGEN OXIDES; PAKISTAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84946101113     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408675     Document Type: Article

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