Association of blood and hair mercury with blood pressure and vascular reactivity

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 250-252

  Bautista, Leonelo E ^a   Stein, James H ^a   Morgan, Barbara J ^a   Stanton, Noel ^b   Young, Terry ^a   Nieto, F Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADULT; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COLD VAPOR ATOMIC FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPECTROMETRY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HAIR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VASODILATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 70350519383     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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