Assessment of urinary metals following exposure to a large vegetative fire, New Mexico, 2000

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-128

  Wolfe, Mitchell I ^a,b   Mott, Joshua A ^a,b   Voorhees, Ronald E ^c   Sewell, C Mack ^c   Paschal, Dan ^b   Wood, Charles M ^b   McKinney, Patrick E ^d,e   Redd, Stephen ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental exposure; Environmental monitoring; Fires; Sampling studies; Smoke

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; NICKEL; URANIUM;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMOKE; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKE;

EID: 1942516412     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500299     Document Type: Article

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