Relationships of thyroid hormones with polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, furans, and DDE in adults

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1197-1203

  Turyk, Mary E ^a   Anderson, Henry A ^b   Persky, Victoria W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CDC; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; DDE; Dioxin; Endocrine disruption; Furan; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; NHANES; PCB; Thyroid; Thyroid stimulating hormone; Thyroxine; Toxic equivalents; TSH

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; DIOXIN; FURAN; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; DRUG DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; POLYCHLORODIBENZO-4-DIOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; BENZOFURANS; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848862155     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10179     Document Type: Article

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