Perinatal lead and mercury exposure in Austria

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5744-5749

  Gundacker, Claudia ^a,b   Fröhlich, Sonja ^b   Graf Rohrmeister, Klaudia ^b   Eibenberger, Barbara ^b   Jessenig, Verena ^b   Gicic, Dijana ^c   Prinz, Susanne ^c   Wittmann, Karl Johann ^c   Zeisler, Harald ^b   Vallant, Birgit ^d   Pollak, Arnold ^b   Husslein, Peter ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Cord blood; Lead; Maternal blood; Maternal hair; Meconium; Methyl mercury; Newborn anthropometry; Placenta

Indexed keywords

BREAST MILK; CORD BLOOD; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL HAIR; MECONIUM; METHYL MERCURY; NEWBORN ANTHROPOMETRY; PLACENTA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POLLUTION;

LEAD; MERCURY;

BLOOD; BREASTFEEDING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAIR; LEAD; MATERNAL CARE; METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST MILK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL CARE; MECONIUM; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL SCHOOLING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUSTRIA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MECONIUM; MERCURY; MILK, HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 77958113233     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.079     Document Type: Article

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