Short-term exposure to urban air pollution and influences on placental vascularization indexes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 753-759

  Hettfleisch, Karen ^a   Bernardes, Lisandra Stein ^a   Carvalho, Mariana Azevedo ^a   Pastro, Luciana Duzolina Manfré ^a   Vieira, Sandra Elisabete ^a   Saldiva, Silvia R D M ^b   Saldiva, Paulo ^a   Francisco, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Saude de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; URBAN AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 85016763718     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP300     Document Type: Article

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