Associations between brominated flame retardants in house dust and hormone levels in men

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 445-446, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-184

  Johnson, Paula I ^a,d   Stapleton, Heather M ^b   Mukherjee, Bhramar ^a   Hauser, Russ ^c   Meeker, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrology; Endocrine disruption; Fire retardants; Human exposure; Indoor contamination; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ANDROLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; INDOOR CONTAMINATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

ANIMALS; BODY FLUIDS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HOUSES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

DUST;

BISTRIBROMOPHENOXYETHANE; ESTRADIOL; FLAME RETARDANT; FOLLITROPIN; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; SEX HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TETRABROMODIETHYLHEXYLPHTHALATE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BROMINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HORMONE; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PBDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FREE ANDROGEN INDEX; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DUST; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTRADIOL; FLAME RETARDANTS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84872415053     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.017     Document Type: Article

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