When are fetuses and young children most susceptible to soil metal concentrations of arsenic, lead and mercury?

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-272

  McDermott, Suzanne ^a   Bao, Weichao ^b   Marjorie Aelion, C ^c   Cai, Bo ^b   Lawson, Andrew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Intellectual disability; Kriging; Lead; Mercury; Spatial clusters

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; LEAD; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ARSENIC; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; LEAD; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862890908     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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