Heavy metals and couple fecundity, the LIFE Study

Chemosphere

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1201-1207

  Buck Louis, Germaine M ^a   Sundaram, Rajeshwari ^a   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a   Sweeney, Anne M ^b   Lynch, Courtney D ^c   Gore Langton, Robert E ^d   Chen, Zhen ^a   Kim, Sungduk ^a   Caldwell, Kathleen L ^e   Barr, Dana Boyd ^f  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Fecundity; Lead; Mercury; Reproduction; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CELL PROLIFERATION; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (METAL);

BODY MASS INDEX; CADMIUM AND LEADS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FECUNDITY; LEAD CONCENTRATION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITIES; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY;

OBSTETRICS;

CADMIUM; COTININE; LEAD; LIPID; MERCURY;

ALKALOID; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAVY METAL; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LIFESTYLE; LIPID; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SERUM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTRACEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 84862828904     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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