Blood organic mercury and dietary mercury intake: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 and 2000

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 562-570

  Mahaffey, Kathryn R ^a   Clickner, Robert P ^b   Bodurow, Catherine C ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Exposure; Fish; Mercury; Methyl mercury; NHANES; Population estimates; Shellfish; Women

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN; BIRTH RATE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHELLFISH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7944226409     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6587     Document Type: Review

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