Blood total mercury and fish consumption in the Korean general population in KNHANES III, 2005

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4841-4847

  Kim, Nam Soo ^a   Lee, Byung Kook ^a  

^a Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blood; Fish consumption; KNHANES III; Mercury; Population estimate; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT POPULATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FISH CONSUMPTION; GENERAL POPULATION; GENERAL TRENDS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; KNHANES; MERCURY; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY LEVELS; NUTRITION SURVEY; POPULATION ESTIMATE; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; TOTAL MERCURIES; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FISH; MERCURY (METAL); SURVEYS;

BLOOD;

MERCURY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD CONSUMPTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SHELLFISH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GEOMETRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; MERCURY BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA FOOD; SHELLFISH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SQUID; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; SEAFOOD; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

KOREA;

BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA;

EID: 77955927307     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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