Assessing exposure to disinfection by-products in women of reproductive age living in Corpus Christi, Texas and Cobb County, Georgia: Descriptive results and methods

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 597-604

  Lynberg, M ^a   Nuckols, J R ^a   Langlois, P ^a   Ashley, D ^a   Singer, P ^a   Mendola, P ^a   Wilkes, C ^a   Krapfl, H ^a   Miles, E ^a   Speight, V ^a   Lin, B ^a   Small, L ^a   Miles, A ^a   Bonin, M ^a   Zeitz, P ^a   Tadkod, A ^a   Henry, J ^a   Forrester, M B ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Disinfection by products; Epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Exposure modeling; Tap water; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; BROMOFORM; CHLOROFORM; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; TAP WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE; WATER;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 0035354903     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109597     Document Type: Article

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