Blood cadmium concentrations in the general population of Umbria, Central Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-64

  Dell'Omo, Marco ^a   Muzi, Giacomo ^a   Piccinini, Renza ^a   Gambelunghe, Angela ^a   Morucci, Piero ^a   Fiordi, Tiziana ^a   Ambrogi, Maura ^a   Abbritti, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Via E Dal Pozzo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood; Cadmium; Environmental exposure; General population; Reference intervals

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CADMIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING;

EID: 0033016911     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00373-8     Document Type: Article

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