Urinary Phthalate Metabolites Are Associated with Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference in Chinese School Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Hexing ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Tang, Chuanxi ^b   He, Yanhong ^c   Wu, Jingui ^b   Chen, Yue ^d   Jiang, Qingwu ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Anting Hospital   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYLHEXYL MONOESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; OBESITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RELATIVE DENSITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHTHALIC ACIDS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84874240379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056800     Document Type: Article

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