Blood biomarkers of late pregnancy exposure to trihalomethanes in drinking water and fetal growth measures and gestational age in a chinese cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 536-541

  Cao, Wen Cheng ^a   Zeng, Qiang ^a   Luo, Yan ^a   Chen, Hai Xia ^a   Miao, Dong Yue ^a   Li, Li ^b   Cheng, Ying Hui ^c   Li, Min ^a   Wang, Fan ^a   You, Ling ^a   Wang, Yi Xin ^a   Yang, Pan ^a   Lu, Wen Qing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN NO 1 HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Xiaonan Maternal and Child Care Service Centre   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; BROMOFORM; CHLOROFORM; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHINESE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84962174319     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409234     Document Type: Article

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