Skip Navigation


American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 24, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(1):122-123; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn377
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
169/1/122    most recent
kwn377v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Heitz, A.
Right arrow Articles by Kristiana, I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Heitz, A.
Right arrow Articles by Kristiana, I.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

RE: "WATER DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS AND PRELABOR RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES"

Anna Heitz and Ina Kristiana

Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Department of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 6845

(e-mail: a.heitz@curtin.edu.au)

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In a recent Journal article, Joyce et al. investigated the link between prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM) in pregnancy and concentrations of nitrate in drinking water, concluding that their preliminary results "suggest a relation between the development of term PROM and exposure to water disinfection by-products" (1, p. 519). However, the study presented no evidence to support the proposition that nitrate is related . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?