Acetylcholinesterase activity, cohabitation with floricultural workers, and blood pressure in Ecuadorian children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 619-624

  Suarez Lopez, Jose R ^a,b   Jacobs, David R ^a,c   Himes, John H ^a   Alexander, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Fundación Zoológica del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; AChE; Agricultural communities; Agriculture; Blood pressure; Children; Ecuador; Epidemiology; Pesticides; Secondary exposure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHILD; COHABITATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORKER;

EID: 84877025318     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205431     Document Type: Article

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