Associations of pregnancy outcomes and PM2.5 in a national Canadian study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 243-249

  Stieb, David M ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Beckerman, Bernardo S ^b   Jerrett, Michael ^c   Crouse, Daniel L ^d   Omariba, D Walter Rasugu ^e   Peters, Paul A ^d   Donkelaar, Aaron Van ^f   Martin, Randall V ^f,g   Burnett, Richard T ^a   Gilbert, Nicolas L ^h   Tjepkema, Michael ^e   Liu, Shiliang ^h   Dugandzic, Rose M ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^e STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BIRTHPLACE; CANADA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PARTICLE SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TOXICITY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956637992     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408995     Document Type: Article

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