Prenatal mercury contamination: Relationship with maternal seafood consumption during pregnancy and fetal growth in the 'EDEN mother-child' cohort

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1096-1100

  Drouillet Pinard, Peggy ^a,b   Huel, Guy ^a,b   Slama, R ^c,d   Forhan, Anne ^a,b   Sahuquillo, J ^a,b   Goua, Valérie ^e   Thiébaugeorges, Olivier ^f   Foliguet, Bernard ^f   Magnin, Guillaume ^e   Kaminski, Monique ^c,g   Cordier, Sylvaine ^c,h,i   Charles, Marie Aline ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^h University of Paris VI ^*  (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Fetal growth; Mercury; Prenatal exposure; Seafood consumption

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MERCURIALISM; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEA FOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HAIR; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

MERCURY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MERCURY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEAFOOD; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78049509814     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510001947     Document Type: Article

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