Associations of serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants with the prevalence of periodontal disease and subpopulations of white blood cells

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1558-1562

  Lee, Duk Hee ^a,b   Jacobs Jr , David R ^b,c   Kocher, Thomas ^d  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immune system; Neutrophil; Organochlorine pesticides; Periodontitis; Persistent organic pollutants

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; POLLUTANT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 58849161822     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11425     Document Type: Article

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