Evaluation of urinary cadmium and lead as markers of background exposure of middle-aged women in Korea: Dietary intake as an influential factor

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 173-178

  Moon, C S ^a   Zhang, Z W ^b   Shimbo, S ^b   Watanabe, T ^c   Lee, C U ^a   Lee, B K ^d   Ahn, K D ^d   Lee, S H ^e   Ikeda, M ^f  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

^b KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^e The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood; Cadmium; Food duplicate; Lead; Marker of non occupational exposure; Urine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KOREA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; KOREA; LEAD; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032847262     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(99)00086-7     Document Type: Article

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