Relationship between occupational social class and exposure to organochlorine pesticides during pregnancy

Chemosphere

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 831-838

  Freire, Carmen ^a   Amaya, Esperanza ^a   Fernández, Mariana F ^a   González Galarzo, M Carmen ^b,c   Ramos, Rosa ^a   Molina Molina, Jose M ^a   Arrebola, Juan P ^a   Olea, Nicolas ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

Occupational social class; Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); Pregnancy; Total effective xenoestrogenic burden (TEXB)

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL SOCIAL CLASS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PREGNANCY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; TOTAL EFFECTIVE XENOESTROGENIC BURDEN (TEXB);

PESTICIDES;

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOSULFAN; ESTROGEN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

BIOASSAY; BIOMARKER; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOSULFAN; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79953295171     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.02.076     Document Type: Article

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