Relation between in Utero arsenic exposure and birth outcomes in a cohort of mothers and their newborns from New Hampshire

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1299-1307

  Gilbert Diamond, Diane ^a,b   Emond, Jennifer A ^a   Baker, Emily R ^b,c   Korrick, Susan A ^b,d,e   Karagas, Margaret R ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; ARSENIC; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CALORIMETRY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84980349586     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510065     Document Type: Article

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