Toxins in Everyday Life

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-727

  Chey, Howard ^a   Buchanan, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Environmental history; Toxicants

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ABAMECTIN; ARSENIC; BORIC ACID; CADMIUM; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIQUAT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GLYPHOSATE; HEAVY METAL; INSECTICIDE; LEAD; MECOPROP; MERCURY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; OZONE; PAINT; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; PYRETHROID; RADON; RODENTICIDE; STRYCHNINE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THIOMERSAL; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ACUTE TOXICITY; AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGY; AMBIENT AIR; ARSENIC POISONING; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLADDER CANCER; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BURN; CADMIUM POISONING; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD HEALTH; COMA; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DEATH; DELIRIUM; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPISTAXIS; EYE TOXICITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENOTOXICITY; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEADACHE; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEAD POISONING; LEUKEMIA; LIVER TOXICITY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFECTION; MELANOSIS; MERCURIALISM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOULD; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE CONGESTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCULAR PRURITUS; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; POLLUTANT; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEASON; SEIZURE; SKIN CANCER; SKIN TOXICITY; SOMNOLENCE; TOXICOLOGY; VOMITING;

AIR POLLUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FUNGI; HUMANS; METALS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEDIATRICS; PESTICIDES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 53349143358     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2008.07.001     Document Type: Review

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