Increased traffic exposure and negative birth outcomes: a prospective cohort in Australia
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Increased traffic exposure and negative birth outcomes: a prospective cohort in Australia
BACKGROUND Pregnant women exposed to traffic pollution have an increased risk of negative birth outcomes. We aimed to investigate the size of this risk using a prospective cohort of 970 mothers and newborns in Logan, Queensland. METHODS We examined two measures of traffic: distance to nearest road and number of roads around the home. To examine the effect of distance we used the number of roa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1476-069X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069x-10-26