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

Background: Vanadium, an important pollutant produced from anthropogenic activities, has been suggested to be embryotoxic and fetotoxic in animal studies. However, little is known about its effects on humans. We aimed to assess the association of prenatal exposure to vanadium with the risk of advers...

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Main Authors: Jie Hu, PhD, Wei Xia, PhD, Xinyun Pan, MPH, Prof Tongzhang Zheng, PhD, Bin Zhang, PhD, Aifen Zhou, PhD, Prof Stephen L Buka, ScD, Bryan A Bassig, PhD, Wenyu Liu, MD, Chuansha Wu, MD, Yang Peng, MD, Jun Li, PhD, Chuncao Zhang, MPH, Hongxiu Liu, MD, Minmin Jiang, MD, Prof Youjie Wang, PhD, Jianduan Zhang, PhD, Zheng Huang, PhD, Dan Zheng, PhD, Kunchong Shi, PhD, Prof Zhengmin Qian, PhD, Prof Yuanyuan Li, PhD, Prof Shunqing Xu, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-09-01
Series:The Lancet Planetary Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519617300943