Exposure to organochlorines and mercury through fish and marine mammal consumption: Associations with growth and duration of gestation among Inuit newborns

Environment International

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-91

  Dallaire, Renée ^a   Dewailly, Éric ^a   Ayotte, Pierre ^a   Forget Dubois, Nadine ^a   Jacobson, Sandra W ^b   Jacobson, Joseph L ^b   Muckle, Gina ^a  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestation; Growth; Mercury; Organochlorines; Polyunsaturated fatty acids; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

FISH; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MAMMALS; MERCURY (METAL); OBSTETRICS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENT; CORD BLOOD; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; FETAL GROWTH; GESTATION; GROWTH PARAMETERS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; INDIRECT ASSOCIATION; MARINE MAMMALS; MERCURIES (HG); ORGANOCHLORINES; PATH MODELS; PCB 153; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

FISH; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARINE MAMMAL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESKIMO; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARINE MAMMAL; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 84873908434     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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