Environmental pollution by persistent toxic substances and health risk in an industrial area of China

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1359-1367

  Li, Jing ^a,b   Lu, Yonglong ^a   Shi, Yajuan ^a   Wang, Tieyu ^a   Wang, Guang ^a,b   Luo, Wei ^a   Jiao, Wentao ^a   Chen, Chunli ^a,b   Yan, Feng ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Health risk; Organochlorine pesticides; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Questionnaire survey; Soil pollution

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BOHAI BAY; BREAST CANCER; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PARKS; CHEMICAL PRODUCTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; HEALTH EFFECTS; HEALTH INDICATORS; HUMAN HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LOCAL RESIDENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; MANN-WHITNEY; NORTHERN CHINA; ODDS RATIOS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATICS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOIL SAMPLE; STOMACH CANCER; TIANJIN;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DISEASES; HEALTH; HYDROCARBONS; IMPURITIES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; PARKS; PESTICIDES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; SURVEYS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

HEALTH RISKS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; HEALTH RISK; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANOCHLORINE; PAH; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BOHAI BAY; CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 80051682413     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(10)60554-2     Document Type: Article

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