Lead and mercury in breast milk

Pediatrics

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 873-878

  Gundacker, Claudia ^a   Pietschnig, Beate ^b   Wittmann, Karl J ^a   Lischka, Andreas ^b   Salzer, Hans ^c   Hohenauer, Leonhard ^d   Schuster, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^c Landeskrankenhaus Tulln   (Austria)

^d KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Cow milk; Infant formulas; Metals; Population; Urban versus rural

Indexed keywords

LEAD; MERCURY;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUSTRIA; BREAST MILK; CEREAL; FISH; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SMOKING HABIT; TOOTH FILLING; URBAN AREA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; MERCURY; MILK; MILK, HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036843089     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.110.5.873     Document Type: Article

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