Urinary perchlorate and thyroid hormone levels in adolescent and adult men and women living in the United States

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1865-1871

  Blount, Benjamin C ^a   Pirkle, James L ^a   Osterloh, John D ^a   Valentin Blasini, Liza ^a   Caldwell, Kathleen L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure; Iodine; NHANES; Perchlorate; Thyroid; Thyroxine; TSH

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANDROGEN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTININE; ESTROGEN; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IODINE; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; THIOCYANATE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PERCHLORIC ACID; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845317579     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9466     Document Type: Article

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