Hair mercury levels in an urban population from southern Italy: Fish consumption as a determinant of exposure

Environment International

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-167

  Díez, Sergi ^a,b   Montuori, Paolo ^c   Pagano, Adele ^c   Sarnacchiaro, Pasquale ^c   Bayona, Josep M ^b   Triassi, Maria ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dental amalgam; Fish consumption; Hair; Italy; Mercury

Indexed keywords

DENTAL MATERIALS; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; FISH; LINEAR SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX (BMI); DENTAL AMALGAM; FISH CONSUMPTION; HAIR; URBAN POPULATION;

MERCURY AMALGAMS;

DENTAL ALLOY; MERCURY;

AGE; BODY MASS; FISH; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GENDER; HAIR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FISH; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOOTH FILLING; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 39049088183     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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