Blood/air distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a nationally representative sample

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 419, Issue , 2012, Pages 225-232

  Jia, Chunrong ^a   Yu, Xinhua ^a   Masiak, Wasim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; NHANES; Partition coefficient; Population; Volatile organic compound

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY COMPOSITION; CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HEALTH OUTCOMES; HUMAN BLOOD SAMPLES; HUMAN BLOODS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; METHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; NHANES; P-DICHLOROBENZENE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHARMACOKINETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHARMACOKINETICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; CHLOROFORM; DRINKING WATER; ETHYLBENZENE; ORTHO XYLENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHANE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHILD; CHLOROBENZENES; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; UNITED STATES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857053105     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.12.055     Document Type: Article

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