Maternal arsenic exposure and impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1059-1064

  Ettinger, Adrienne S ^a,b,c   Zota, Ami R ^a   Amarasiriwardene, Chitra J ^a,b   Hopkins, Marianne R ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a,b   Hu, Howard ^a,c   Wright, Robert O ^a,b,c,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Gestational diabetes; Impaired glucose tolerance; Pregnancy; Superfund

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAID; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 67650866537     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800533     Document Type: Article

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