Effects of lead on the endocrine system in lead smelter workers

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 449-455

  Erfurth, Eva Marie ^a   Gerhardsson, Lars ^a   Nilsson, Anita ^a   Rylander, Lars ^a   Schütz, Andrejs ^a   Skerfving, Staffan ^a   Börjesson, Jimmy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood; Bone; Lead; Pituitary hormones; Plasma; Smelter; Urine

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LEAD; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BONE LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROVOCATION TEST; SMELTER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEAD; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0035652009     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890109604481     Document Type: Article

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