Association of polychlorinated biphenyls with hypertension in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Environmental Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-97

  Everett, Charles J ^a   Mainous III, Arch G ^a   Frithsen, Ivar L ^a   Player, Marty S ^a   Matheson, Eric M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Hypertension; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

HEALTH SURVEY; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTICS; NUTRITION; PCB; SMOKING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50149108120     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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