Prevalence of self-reported diabetes and exposure to organochlorine pesticides among Mexican Americans: Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey, 1982-1984

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1747-1752

  Cox, Shanna ^a   Niskar, Amanda Sue ^b,c   Venkat Narayan, K M ^a,d   Marcus, Michele ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Health effects; HHANES; Hispanic; Organochlorines; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; LIPID; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIPIDS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PESTICIDES; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749107019     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10258     Document Type: Article

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