Cadmium and mercury levels in Saudi women and its possible relationship with hypertension

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-29

  Al Saleh, Iman ^a   Shinwari, Neptune ^a   Mashhour, Abdullah ^a   Mohamed, Gamal El Din ^a   Ghosh, Mohammad Abu ^a   Shammasi, Zaki ^a   Al Nasser, Abdulaziz ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Diastolic blood pressure; Hypertension; Lead; Mercury; Saudi Arabia; Systolic blood pressure; Women

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; MERCURY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CADMIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 33748337935     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:112:1:13     Document Type: Article

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