Infant infections and respiratory symptoms in relation to in utero arsenic exposure in a U.S. cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 840-847

  Farzan, Shohreh F ^a,b   Li, Zhigang ^a,b   Korrick, Susan A ^c,d   Spiegelman, Donna ^d   Enelow, Richard ^a,b   Nadeau, Kari ^e   Baker, Emily ^b   Karagas, Margaret R ^a,b  

^a Children s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WHEEZING; YOUNG ADULT; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84971500175     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409282     Document Type: Article

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