Reporting individual test results of environmental chemicals in breastmilk: Potential for premature weaning

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-213

  Geraghty, Sheela R ^a,b   Khoury, Jane C ^a   Morrow, Ardythe L ^a   Lanphear, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; INSECTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; WEANING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST FEEDING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57749087887     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2008.0120     Document Type: Article

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