The interaction of agricultural pesticides and marginal iodine nutrition status as a cause of autism spectrum disorders

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sullivan, Kevin M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; IODIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

AUTISM; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LACTATION; LETTER; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; THYROID DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IODINE; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 45749128614     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11010     Document Type: Letter

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