Exposure to cadmium in male urban and rural workers and effects on FSH, LH and testosterone

Chemosphere

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2077-2084

  Ciarrocca, Manuela ^a   Capozzella, Assunta ^a   Tomei, Francesco ^a   Tomei, Gianfranco ^b   Caciari, Tiziana ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood cadmium; FSH; LH; Male workers; Testosterone; Urinary cadmium

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; LINEAR REGRESSION; RURAL AREAS; WATER SUPPLY;

BLOOD CADMIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONES; MALE WORKERS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; REPRODUCTIVE HORMONES; TESTOSTERONE;

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; CREATININE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLOOD; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HEALTH IMPACT; HORMONE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE; RURAL AREA; WATER SUPPLY; WORKER;

EID: 84873093357     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.10.060     Document Type: Article

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