Urine analysis for the evaluation of environmental exposures to aromatic hydrocarbons

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 237-244

  Skender, Ljiljana ^a   Brčić, Irena ^a   Karačić, Višnja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

BTEX; Dynamic headspace; General population; Nonsmokers; Purge and trap gas chromatography; Smokers; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ETHYLBENZENE; META XYLENE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CROATIA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTION; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURGE AND TRAP GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

EID: 25844525487     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.59.5.237-244     Document Type: Article

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