Hypospadias and halogenated organic pollutant levels in maternal mid-pregnancy serum samples

Chemosphere

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 641-646

  Carmichael, Suzan L ^a   Herring, Amy H ^b   Sjödin, Andreas ^c   Jones, Richard ^c   Needham, Larry ^c   Ma, Chen ^a   Ding, Kai ^b   Shaw, Gary M ^d  

^a March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DDE; Hypospadias; PBDE; PCB; Pesticide; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSTETRICS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYPOSPADIAS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PBDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); PREGNANCY;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; FLAME RETARDANT; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; POLLUTANT;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISORDER; ETHNICITY; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; MATERNAL EFFECT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PESTICIDE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL BLOOD; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; MALE; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77953807730     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.04.055     Document Type: Article

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