Depression and its association with pesticide exposure across the agricultural season among Latino farmworkers in North Carolina

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 635-639

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Chen, Haiying ^a   Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Vallejos, Quirina M ^a   Galvan, Leonardo ^b   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b North Carolina Farmworkers Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinesterase; Farmworker; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; CHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TOXICOKINETICS; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CHOLINESTERASES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PESTICIDES; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951717223     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901492     Document Type: Article

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