Exposures to particulate matter from the eruptions of the puyehue volcano and birth outcomes in montevideo, Uruguay

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1816-1822

  Balsa, Ana Ines ^a   Caffera, Marcelo ^a   Bloomfield, Juanita ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VOLCANO; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; REGISTER; TOXICITY; URUGUAY;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; REGISTRIES; URUGUAY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84994275370     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP235     Document Type: Article

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