Biomonitoring of urinary metals in a population living in the vicinity of industrial sources: A comparison with the general population of Andalusia, Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 669-678

  Aguilera, Inmaculada ^a   Daponte, Antonio ^a   Gil, Fernando ^b   Hernández, Antonio F ^b   Godoy, Patricia ^c   Pla, Antonio ^b   Ramos, Juan Luis ^c  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biomonitoring; Environmental exposure; Environmental health; Heavy metals; Urine

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METALS; NICKEL ALLOYS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANDALUSIA; ARSENIC LEVELS; BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; GENERAL POPULATIONS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MAJOR FACTORS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODELS; POLLUTED AREAS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES; SOUTHERN SPAIN; URBAN POPULATIONS; URINARY METALS; URINE;

METALS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; METAL; NICKEL;

ARSENIC; BIOMONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL AREA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 56249103744     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.08.041     Document Type: Article

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