Geographic variation in the association between ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and term low birth weight in the united states

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 250-255

  Hao, Yongping ^a   Strosnider, Heather ^a   Balluz, Lina ^a   Qualters, Judith R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; METEOROLOGY; NEWBORN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956639117     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408798     Document Type: Article

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