Evaluation of the association between maternal smoking, childhood obesity, and metabolic disorders: A national toxicology program workshop review

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 170-180

  Behl, Mamta ^a,b   Rao, Deepa ^c   Aagaard, Kjersti ^d   Davidson, Terry L ^e   Levin, Edward D ^f   Slotkin, Theodore A ^g   Srinivasan, Supriya ^h   Wallinga, David ⁱ   White, Morris F ^j   Walker, Vickie R ^b   Thayer, Kristina A ^b   Holloway, Alison C ^k  

^a Kelly Government Solutions   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c INTEGRATED LABORATORY SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy   (United States)

^j BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Animal; Chemically induced epidemiology; Diabetes; Environmental epidemiology; Glucose; Insulin; Maternal smoking toxicity; Metabolism; Nicotine toxicity; Obesity

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CADMIUM; CIGARETTE SMOKE; COTININE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; LEPTIN; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; TOBACCO SMOKE; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; NICOTINE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84873344571     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205404     Document Type: Review

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