In utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and sensorineural hearing loss in 8-year-old children

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 629-637

  Longnecker, Matthew P ^a   Hoffman, Howard J ^b   Klebanoff, Mark A ^c   Brock, John W ^d   Zhou, Haibo ^a,e   Needham, Larry ^d   Adera, Tilahun ^f   Guo, Xuguang ^g   Gray, Kimberly A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c Div of Epidemiol Stat and Prev Research   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Statistics and Public Health Research Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Children; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4143118863     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2004.04.007     Document Type: Article

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