Temporal variability of pesticide concentrations in homes and implications for attenuation bias in epidemiologic studies

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 565-571

  Deziel, Nicole C ^a   Ward, Mary H ^a   Bell, Erin M ^b   Whitehead, Todd P ^c   Gunier, Robert B ^c   Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Nuckols, John R ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Environmental exposure; Pesticides; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CARBARIL; CHLORDANE; CIPERMETHRIN; DIMPYLATE; HERBICIDE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHROID; SIMAZINE; TRIFLURALIN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST EXPOSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DUST; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877082709     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205811     Document Type: Article

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