Dietary and environmental determinants of blood and bone lead levels in lactating postpartum women living in Mexico City

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1076-1082

  Hernandez Avila, Mauricio ^a   Gonzalez Cossio, Teresita ^a   Palazuelos, Eduardo ^b,c   Romieu, Isabelle ^d   Aro, Antonio ^e   Fishbein, Eugenia ^a,b   Peterson, Karen E ^e   Hu, Howard ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b AMERICAN BRITISH COWDRAY MEDICAL CENTER   (Mexico)

^c Secretaria del Medio Ambiente   (Mexico)

^d Organizacion Panamericana la Salud   (Mexico)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone lead; Calcium intake; Environmental factors; Mexico; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LEAD;

ARTICLE; BONE LEVEL; BONE TURNOVER; CALCIUM INTAKE; CHEESE; CORTICAL BONE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MEXICO; MILK; NEWBORN; PATELLA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 0029905142     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041076     Document Type: Article

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