Prenatal Exposure to Nitrogen Oxides and its Association with Birth Weight in a Cohort of Mexican Newborns from Morelos, Mexico

• Main Authors: Jessica Mendoza-Ramirez (Author), Albino Barraza-Villarreal (Author), Leticia Hernandez-Cadena (Author), Octavio Hinojosa de la Garza (Author), José Luis Texcalac Sangrador (Author), Luisa Elvira Torres-Sanchez (Author), Marlene Cortez-Lugo (Author), Consuelo Escamilla-Nuñez (Author), Luz Helena Sanin-Aguirre (Author), Isabelle Romieu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The Child-Mother binomial is potentially susceptible to the toxic effects of pollutants because some chemicals interfere with placental transfer of nutrients, thus affecting fetal development, and create an increased the risk of low birth weight, prematurity and intrauterine growth restr...