Intersubject variability of risk from perchlorate in community water supplies

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 975-979

  Crawford Brown, Doug ^a   Raucher, Bob ^b   Harrod, Megan ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo analysis; Perchlorate; Risk; Sensitive subpopulations; Water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; IODINE; PERCHLORATE;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GOITER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID FUNCTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE; PERCHLORIC ACID; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33745781667     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8459     Document Type: Note

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