Air pollution, neighborhood acculturation factors, and neural tube defects among hispanic women in california

Birth Defects Research

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 403-422

  Padula, Amy M ^a   Yang, Wei ^b   Carmichael, Suzan L ^b   Lurmann, Frederick ^c   Balmes, John ^a,d   Hammond, S Katharine ^d   Shaw, Gary M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Air pollution; Birth outcomes; Congenital anomalies

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; MULTIVITAMIN; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; YOUNG ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; CALIFORNIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; CARBON MONOXIDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85035759705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24721727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23602     Document Type: Article

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