Moderate Prenatal Cadmium Exposure and Adverse Birth Outcomes: a Role for Sex-Specific Differences?

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 603-611

  Taylor, Caroline M ^a   Golding, Jean ^a   Emond, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALSPAC; birth outcomes; cadmium; child; environment; heavy metals; pregnancy; smoking

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; CADMIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN HEEL LENGTH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAD; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CADMIUM; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING;

EID: 84995529378     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ppe.12318     Document Type: Article

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