Developmental impacts of heavy metals and undernutrition

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-217

  Wasserman, Gail A ^a,b   Liu, Xinhua ^c   Factor Litvak, Pam ^c   Gardner, Julie Meeks ^d   Graziano, Joseph H ^c  

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

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of the West Indies ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; PESTICIDE; WATER; WELL WATER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BANGLADESH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; METALS, HEAVY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 38449122632     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00187.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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