Low Birth Weight and Prenatal Exposure to Indoor Pollution from Tobacco Smoke and Wood Fuel Smoke: A Matched Case-Control Study in Gaza Strip.
Maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a major health hazard as it contains lower doses of the toxins that smokers' inhale. Prenatal exposure to wood fuel smoke has been linked to delivering low birth weight (LBW) infants. The study aims to assess the association between prenatal...
| Published in: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 1718 - 1728 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2012
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