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Effect of environmental agents on pregnancy outcomes: disturbances of prenatal growth and development
1Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Medical Clinics of North America
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
Environmental factors may have significant adverse effects on the developing fetus. Prescribed and illicit drugs, environmental chemicals, physical factors, and maternal diseases may affect the developing fetus directly or may interact with genetic factors to cause birth defects.