Daily urinary excretion of uranium in members of the public of Southwest Nigeria

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 412-413, Issue , 2011, Pages 344-350

  Höllriegl, Vera ^a   Arogunjo, Adeseye M ^a   Giussani, Augusto ^a   Michalke, Bernhard ^a   Oeh, Uwe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Humans; Nigeria; Uranium; Urinary excretion

Indexed keywords

BASELINE VALUES; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CREATININE; HUMANS; LOW LEVEL; MINING ACTIVITIES; NIGERIA; NORMALIZED VALUES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK OF CONTAMINATION; RUNNING-IN; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; URINARY EXCRETION;

BODY FLUIDS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; URANIUM;

URANIUM MINES;

CREATININE; URANIUM;

BIOMONITORING; HEALTH RISK; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; URANIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NIGERIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; REFERENCE VALUES; URANIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

NIGERIA;

EID: 84855826533     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.023     Document Type: Article

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