Polychlorinated dioxins, furans, and biphenyls in blood of children and adults living in a dioxin-contaminated area in Tokyo

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-15

  Tohyama, Chiharu ^g   Uchiyama, Iwao ^a   Hoshi, Shuji ^b   Hijiya, Masaki ^b   Miyata, Hideaki ^c   Nagai, Masaki ^d   Nakai, Satoshi ^e   Yauchi, Mariko ^f   Ohkubo, Satsuki ^f  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IDEA CONSULTANTS INC   (Japan)

^c SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Public Health Center of Kita City   (Japan)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Blood; Breast feeding; Children; Dioxin; Soil

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BENZOFURANS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TOKYO; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 78651241451     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-010-0156-z     Document Type: Article

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