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A Population-Based Case–Control Study of Extreme Summer Temperature and Birth Defects
27 Jun 2012
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BACKGROUND: Although hyperthermia is a recognized animal teratogen and maternal fever has been associated with birth defects in humans, data on the relationship between high environmental temperatures and birth defects are limited. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether pregnancies are potentially vulnerable to the weather extremes anticipated with climate change, we evaluated the relationship between extreme summer...
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