Association of adverse birth outcomes with prenatal exposure to vanadium: a population-based cohort study

The Lancet Planetary Health

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2017, Pages e230-e241

  Hu, Jie ^a,b   Xia, Wei ^a   Pan, Xinyun ^a   Zheng, Tongzhang ^b   Zhang, Bin ^c   Zhou, Aifen ^c   Buka, Stephen L ^b   Bassig, Bryan A ^d   Liu, Wenyu ^a   Wu, Chuansha ^a   Peng, Yang ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Zhang, Chuncao ^a   Liu, Hongxiu ^a   Jiang, Minmin ^a   Wang, Youjie ^a   Zhang, Jianduan ^a   Huang, Zheng ^a   Zheng, Dan ^a   Shi, Kunchong ^b   Qian, Zhengmin ^e   Li, Yuanyuan ^a   Xu, Shunqing ^a   more..

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wuhan Women and Children Medical Care Center   (China)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; VANADIUM;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; URINE LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VANADIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85047231538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25425196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30094-3     Document Type: Article

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