Elevated blood lead concentrations in essential tremor: A case-control study in Mersin, Turkey

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1564-1568

  Dogu, Okan ^a   Louis, Elan D ^b,c,d,e   Tamer, Lulufer ^a   Unal, Ozgur ^a   Yilmaz, Arda ^a   Kaleagasi, Hakan ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Etiology; Lead; Neurology; Toxicants

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; TURKEY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 38449103691     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10352     Document Type: Article

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