Phthalate exposure and human parameters

Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-277

  Duty, Susan M ^a   Silva, Manori J ^b   Barr, Dana B ^b   Brock, John W ^b   Ryan, Louise ^a,c   Chen, Zuying ^d   Herrick, Robert F ^a   Christiani, David C ^a,e   Hauser, Russ ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Epidemiology; Human; Phthalate; Semen quality; Urine

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; MALE INFERTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; SMOKING; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHTHALIC ACIDS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMEN; SMOKING; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 0037996292     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200305000-00005     Document Type: Article

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