Exposure to urban stressor and effects on free testosterone in female workers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 392, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 198-202

  Tomei, Gianfranco ^a   Ciarrocca, Manuela ^a   Fiore, Pina ^a   Rosati, Maria Valeria ^a   Pimpinella, Benedetta ^a   Anzani, Maria Francesca ^a   Giubilati, Roberto ^a   Cangemi, Chiara ^a   Tomao, Enrico ^b   Tomei, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ITAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Female traffic police; Outdoor workers; Stressor; Urban pollutants

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DISEASES; NUTRITION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FEMALE TRAFFIC POLICE; OUTDOOR WORKERS; STRESSOR; URBAN POLLUTANTS;

HORMONES;

TESTOSTERONE;

COFFEE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DISEASE; FEMALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DYSTOCIA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOYBEAN; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; TESTOSTERONE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 38649139093     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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