Strength in numbers: Three separate studies link in Utero organophosphate pesticide exposure and cognitive development

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Gray, Kimberly ^a   Lawler, Cindy P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; DIMPYLATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 79961054849     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104137     Document Type: Editorial

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