Serum PBDEs in a North Carolina toddler cohort: Associations with handwipes, house dust, and socioeconomic variables

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1049-1054

  Stapleton, Heather M ^a   Eagle, Sarah ^a   Sjödin, Andreas ^b   Webster, Thomas F ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Exposure; Handwipes; House dust; PBDEs

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INFANT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DUST; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84864126222     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104802     Document Type: Article

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