Exposure to cooking fuels and birth weight in Lanzhou, China: A birth cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Min ^a   Qiu, Jie ^b   Zhou, Min ^b   He, Xiaochun ^b   Cui, Hongmei ^b   Lerro, Catherine ^c   Lv, Ling ^b   Lin, Xiaojuan ^b   Zhang, Chong ^b   Zhang, Honghong ^b   Xu, Ruifeng ^b   Zhu, Daling ^b   Dang, Yun ^b   Han, Xudong ^b   Zhang, Hanru ^b   Bai, Haiya ^b   Chen, Ya ^b   Tang, Zhongfeng ^b   Lin, Ru ^b   Yao, Tingting ^b   Su, Jie ^b   Xu, Xiaoying ^b   Liu, Xiaohui ^b   Wang, Wendi ^b   Wang, Yueyuan ^b   Ma, Bin ^b   Qiu, Weitao ^b   Zhu, Cairong ^a   Wang, Suping ^d   Huang, Huang ^c   Zhao, Nan ^c   Li, Xiaosong ^a   Liu, Qing ^b   Zhang, Yawei ^c   more..

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Gansu Provincial Maternity and Child Care Hospital   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Birth weight; China; Cooking fuel; Epidemiology; Low birth weight; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

COAL; NATURAL GAS;

ADULT; BIOMASS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COOKING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIOMASS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; COAL; COHORT STUDIES; COOKING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NATURAL GAS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018150600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2038-1     Document Type: Article

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