Assessing environmental neurotoxicant exposures and child neurobehavior: Confounded by confounding?

Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 383-384

  Bellinger, David C ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN;

ACCURACY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; LEAD POISONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION;

CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 4344629161     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000129525.15064.a4     Document Type: Note

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