Ambient temperature and stillbirth: A multi-center retrospective cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Ha, Sandie ^a   Liu, Danping ^a   Zhu, Yeyi ^a   Kim, Sung Soo ^a   Sherman, Seth ^b   Grantz, Katherine L ^a   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

ACUTE EXPOSURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD EXPOSURE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPOSURE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; ICD-9; INFANT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; STILLBIRTH; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85031814594     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP945     Document Type: Article

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