High lead exposure is associated with telomere length shortening in Chinese battery manufacturing plant workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 557-563

  Wu, Yixing ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a   Ni, Na ^b   Bao, Bei ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Lu, Lingeng ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

BODY BURDEN; CHINA; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; LEUKOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864107079     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100478     Document Type: Article

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