Maternal residential exposure to agricultural pesticides and birth defects in a 2003 to 2005 North Carolina birth cohort

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 240-249

  Rappazzo, Kristen M ^a   Warren, Joshua L ^b   Meyer, Robert E ^c   Herring, Amy H ^d   Sanders, Alison P ^e   Brownstein, Naomi C ^f,g   Luben, Thomas J ^h  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Birth defects; Congenital anomalies; GIS; Pesticide exposure; Residential

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AGE; AMNIOTIC BAND SEQUENCE; ANENCEPHALUS; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANORECTAL STENOSIS; ANOTIA; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPISPADIAS; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HARVESTING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LEG MALFORMATION; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MICROTIA; OBSTRUCTIVE GENITOURINARY DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SMOKING; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TRACHEAL ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGRICULTURE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NORTH CAROLINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NORTH CAROLINA; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84960532854     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23479     Document Type: Article

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