A comparison of PBDE serum concentrations in Mexican and Mexican-American children living in California

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1442-1448

  Eskenazi, Brenda ^a   Fenster, Laura ^a   Castorina, Rosemary ^a   Marks, Amy R ^a   Sjödin, Andreas ^b   Rosas, Lisa Goldman ^a   Holland, Nina ^a   Guerra, Armando Garcia ^c   Lopez Carillo, Lizbeth ^c   Bradman, Asa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Children; DDE; DDT; Flame retardants; Human blood serum; Human exposure; Mexican; PBDEs; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEXICAN; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MEXICO; POSTNATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 80052723259     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002874     Document Type: Article

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