Prenatal exposure to organochlorine pesticides and TSH status in newborns from Southern Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3281-3287

  Freire, Carmen ^a   Lopez Espinosa, Maria Jose ^a,b   Fernández, Marieta ^a   Molina Molina, Jose Manuel ^a   Prada, Remedios ^a   Olea, Nicolas ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Male birth cohort; Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); Prenatal exposure; Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; MALE BIRTH COHORT; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE (TSH);

BLOOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECTICIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ENDOSULFAN; ENDRIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; THYROTROPIN;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; NEONATE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PESTICIDES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SPAIN; THYROTROPIN; YOUNG ADULT;

SPAIN;

EID: 79959720132     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.05.037     Document Type: Article

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