Seven-year neurodevelopmental scores and prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos, a common agricultural pesticide

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1196-1201

  Rauh, Virginia ^a   Arunajadai, Srikesh ^a   Horton, Megan ^a,b   Perera, Frederica ^a   Hoepner, Lori ^a   Barr, Dana B ^c   Whyatt, Robin ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Neurodevelopment; Pesticides. environ health perspect

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; CHLORPYRIFOS; PESTICIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHLORPYRIFOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79961050803     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003160     Document Type: Article

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