Exposure to phthalates in neonatal intensive care unit infants: Urinary concentrations of monoesters and oxidative metabolites

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1424-1431

  Weuve, Jennifer ^a   Sánchez, Brisa N ^a   Calafat, Antonia M ^b   Schettler, Ted ^c   Green, Ronald A ^a,e   Hu, Howard ^a,d   Hauser, Russ ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c Science and Environmental Health Network   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Medical Screening Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Di(2 ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP); Infants; Mono(2 ethyl 5 hydroxylhexyl) phthalate (MEHHP); Mono(2 ethyl 5 oxohexyl) phthalate (MEOHP); Mono(2 ethylhexyl) phthalate (MEHP); Monobenzyl phthalate (MBzP); Monobutyl phthalate (MBP); Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); Phthalate; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYL 5 HYDROXYLHEXYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYL 5 OXOHEXYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYLHEXYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BENZYL BUTYL ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BENZYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID BUTYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PLASTICIZER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; URINALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PLASTICIZERS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33748150941     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8926     Document Type: Article

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