Pregnancy-induced hypertension "probably linked" to PFOAcontamination

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Holtcamp, Wendee ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL WASTE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NOTE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STILLBIRTH; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; OCTANOIC ACIDS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84856720672     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.120-a59     Document Type: Note

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