Thyroid dysfunction as a mediator of organochlorine neurotoxicity in preschool children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1429-1435

  Julvez, Jordi ^a   Debes, Frodi ^b   Weihe, Pal ^b   Choi, Anna L ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Longitudinal study; Neurodevelopment; Neurotoxicity syndromes; Organochlorine compounds; Prenatal exposure delayed effects; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIN TRIIODOTHYRONINE UPTAKE RATIO; RISK FACTOR; THYROID DISEASE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 80053446251     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003172     Document Type: Article

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