The conundrum of unmeasured confounding: Comment on: "Can some of the detrimental neurodevelopmental effects attributed to lead be due to pesticides? by Brian Gulson"

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 396, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 196-200

  Lanphear, Bruce P ^a   Hornung, Richard W ^a   Khoury, Jane ^a   Dietrich, Kim N ^a   Cory Slechta, Deborah A ^b   Canfield, Richard L ^c  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Confounder; Environmental epidemiology; Lead toxicity; Observational studies; Pesticide; Unmeasured confounder

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; TOXICITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEAD TOXICITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES; UNMEASURED CONFOUNDERS;

PESTICIDES;

LEAD; PESTICIDE;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BLOOD; BREASTFEEDING; CHILD HEALTH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEAD; MENTAL HEALTH; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43049111364     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.039     Document Type: Note

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