Heavy metals exposures among Mexican farmworkers in eastern North Carolina

Environmental Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-88

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Jones, Bradley T ^b   Talton, Jennifer W ^a   Whalley, Lara E ^a   Galván, Leonardo ^c   Vallejos, Quirina M ^a   Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Chen, Haiying ^a   Pharr, Kathryn E ^b   Isom, Scott ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Farmworkers Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biologic monitoring; Environmental justice; Health disparities; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CREATININE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NEUROTOXIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOMONITORING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY BURDEN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; BODY BURDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71249145624     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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