Longitudinal assessment of mercury exposure in schoolchildren in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon;Avaliação longitudinal da exposição ao mercúrio em crianças de uma área urbana na Amazônia brasileira

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1539-1545

  Dutra, Marilene Danieli Simões ^a   de Jesus, Iracina Maura ^b   Santos, Elisabeth C de Oliveira ^b   Lima, Marcelo de Oliveira ^b   de Medeiros, Renato Lopes Fernandes ^b   Cavadas, Marcia ^a   Luiz, Ronir Raggio ^a   Câmara, Volney de Magalhães ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Child; Environmental exposure; Mercury; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MINING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84866127703     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2012000800012     Document Type: Article

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