Persistent lipophilic environmental chemicals and endometriosis: The ENDO study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 811-816

  Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a   Chen, Zhen ^a   Matthew Peterson, C ^b   Hediger, Mary L ^a   Croughan, Mary S ^c   Sundaram, Rajeshwari ^a   Stanford, Joseph B ^b   Varner, Michael W ^b   Fujimoto, Victor Y ^c   Giudice, Linda C ^c   Trumble, Ann ^a   Parsons, Patrick J ^d   Kannan, Kurunthachalam ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Organochlorine pesticides; Persistent organochlorine pollutants; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; COTININE; FAT; LINDANE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LAPAROSCOPY; LINDANE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODDS RATIO; OMENTUM; UTAH;

EID: 84862001950     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104432     Document Type: Article

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