Search Results - subject:"Spontaneous abortion"

Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes

Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Benedicte; Jung, Toni - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2014

This paper explores whether heat waves at conception, while in utero, or after birth cause better educational and health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat waves have higher educational attainment and literacy,...

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Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC …; … - 2005

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (secondhand smoke) as of mid-2005 produced by the California Air Resources Board and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as part of the process of identifying ETS as a toxic air...

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Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? An approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression

Slama, Rémy; Werwatz, Axel; Boutou, Odile; Ducot, Béatrice - 2002

. We assessed the association between male age and the risk of spontaneous abortion taking into account woman's age. We … 1985 and 2000, who described 2281 pregnancies, among which 290 (12.7%) ended by a spontaneous abortion. We used logistic … regression model predicted that, among women aged 25 years, the odds-ratio (OR) of spontaneous abortion associated with the male …

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Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? An approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression

Slama, Rémy; Werwatz, Axel; Boutou, Odile; Ducot, Béatrice - Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Quantifikation und … - 2002

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