DDT exposure, work in agriculture, and time to pregnancy among farmworkers in California

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1335-1342

  Harley, Kim G ^a   Marks, Amy R ^a   Bradman, Asa ^a   Barr, Dana B ^b   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; MIGRANT WORKER; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; UNITED STATES; WORK; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FERTILITY; HISPANIC; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIGRATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CALIFORNIA; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65849226472     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818f684d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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