Lipid adjustment in the analysis of environmental contaminants and human health risks

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 853-857

  Schisterman, Enrique F ^a   Whitcomb, Brian W ^a   Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal modeling; Directed acyclic graphs; Organochlorines; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Risk estimation; Serum lipids

Indexed keywords

LIPID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 22144457061     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7640     Document Type: Article

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