A strategy for comparing the contributions of environmental chemicals and other risk factors to neurodevelopment of children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 501-507

  Bellinger, David C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Children; Epidemiology; Neurodevelopment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN TUMOR; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FULL SCALE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT SCORE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; IRON DEFICIENCY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84859330815     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104170     Document Type: Article

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