Lead levels in urine of never-smoking adult women in non-polluted areas in Japan, with references to cadmium levels in urine

Industrial Health

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 415-423

  Fukui, Yoshinari ^a   Ezaki, Takafumi ^a   Tsukahara, Teruomi ^a   Moriguchi, Jiro ^a   Furuki, Katsuya ^b   Okamoto, Satoru ^a   Ukai, Hirohiko ^a   Ikeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult women; Background level; Cadmium; General population; Lead; Never smokers; Urine; Women

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CREATININE; LEAD;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; GRAPHITE FURNACE ATOMIC ABSORPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD URINE LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RELATIVE DENSITY; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

EID: 7944235383     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.42.415     Document Type: Article

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