The dependence between urinary mercury concentration and carotid arterial intima-media thickness in workers occupationally exposed to mercury vapour

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-142

  Skoczyńska, Anna ^a   Porȩba, Rafał ^a   Steinmentz Beck, Aleksandra ^a   Martynowicz, Helena ^a   Affelska Jercha, Anna ^a   Turczyn, Barbara ^a   Wojakowska, Anna ^a   Jȩdrychowska, Iwona ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Intima media thickness; Mercury vapour; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHLORINE; CREATININE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; MERCURY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 68549083475     PISSN: 12321087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10001-009-0017-4     Document Type: Article

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