Study on urine boron reference values of Japanese men: Use of confidence intervals as an indicator of exposure to boron compounds

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Usuda, Kan ^a   Kono, Koichi ^a   Dote, Tomotaro ^a   Miyata, Kaori ^a   Nishiura, Hiroyuki ^a   Shimahara, Masashi ^a   Sugimoto, Katsuichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental and occupational exposure; Spectral analysis; Urine boron

Indexed keywords

BORON; BORON DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADULT; BORON; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032483554     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00243-5     Document Type: Article

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