Race/ethnicity-specific associations of urinary phthalates with childhood body mass in a nationally representative sample

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-506

  Trasande, Leonardo ^a,b,c   Attina, Teresa M ^a   Sathyanarayana, Sheela ^d   Spanier, Adam J ^e   Blustein, Jan ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Obesity; Phthalates; Racial ethnic disparities

Indexed keywords

COTININE; PHTHALIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID BIS (2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLITE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875911959     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205526     Document Type: Article

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