Lead and cadmium levels and balance and vestibular dysfunction among adult participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 413-417

  Min, Kyoung Bok ^a   Lee, Kyung Jong ^a   Park, Jae Beom ^a   Min, Jin Young ^b  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Lead; Neurotoxicity; Ototoxicity; Vestibular disturbance

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BALANCE DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROMBERG TEST OF STANDING BALANCE ON FIRM AND COMPLIANT SUPPORT SURFACES; UNITED STATES; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISION TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POSTURAL BALANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; UNITED STATES; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84863238351     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103643     Document Type: Article

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