In utero DDT and DDE exposure and obesity status of 7-year-old Mexican-American children in the CHAMACOS cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 631-636

  Warner, Marcella ^a   Schall, Raul Aguilar ^a   Harley, Kim G ^a   Bradman, Asa ^a   Barr, Dana ^b,c   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Children; Dichlorodiphenyldichloro ethylene; Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Obesity; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

1, 1 DICHLORO 2, 2 BIS (4 CHLOROPHENYL) ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL SERUM; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEXICAN AMERICANS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84877052231     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205656     Document Type: Article

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