Blood and urine levels of long half-life toxicants by nativity among immigrants to the United States

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 412-413, Issue , 2011, Pages 109-113

  Muennig, Peter ^a   Song, Xiaoyu ^a   Payne Sturges, Devon C ^b   Gee, Gilbert C ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental toxicants; Immigrant and refugee health; Seemingly unrelated regression

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICANTS; ERROR TERMS; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; SEEMINGLY UNRELATED REGRESSION; URINE LEVELS;

FORESTRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

BLOOD;

DIOXIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYFLUORINATED DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOMONITORING; BLOOD; HALF LIFE; HEALTH STATUS; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REFUGEE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXIC MATERIAL; TRACE METAL; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; UNITED STATES; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POPULATION GROUPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855857211     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.077     Document Type: Article

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