Towards prenatal biomonitoring in North Carolina: Assessing arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead levels in pregnant women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sanders, Alison P ^a   Flood, Kaye ^b   Chiang, Shu ^b   Herring, Amy H ^c   Wolf, Leslie ^b   Fry, Rebecca C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY; HEAVY METAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL SCREENING; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; AGE; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ARSENIC; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METALS, HEAVY; NORTH CAROLINA; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857981792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031354     Document Type: Article

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