A case-control study of the association between urinary cadmium concentration and endometriosis in infertile Japanese women

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 402, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 171-175

  Itoh, Hiroaki ^a   Iwasaki, Motoki ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiaki ^b   Endo, Yoko ^b   Hanaoka, Tomoyuki ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Tanaka, Tadao ^c   Yang, Bin ^c   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupter; Epidemiology; Estrogenic; Heavy metal; Urine

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; MATERIALS HANDLING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOMARKER; BREAST CANCERS; CADMIUM EXPOSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); CREATININE (CREA); CUMULATIVE EXPOSURES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION (LR); MASS INDEX; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ODDS RATIOS; ODDS RATIOS (OR); POTENTIAL RISKS; URINE SAMPLES;

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; CREATININE;

CADMIUM; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISORDER; FERTILITY; URINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CADMIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; JAPAN; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 48649106753     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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