Ambient temperature and early delivery of Singleton Pregnancies

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 453-459

  Ha, Sandie ^a   Liu, Danping ^a   Zhu, Yeyi ^a   Kim, Sung Soo ^a   Sherman, Seth ^b   Mendola, Pauline ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLD EXPOSURE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ICD-9; INSURANCE; MENSTRUATION; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PARITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX; SMOKING; TEMPERATURE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85014350386     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP97     Document Type: Article

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