Associations between traffic-related black carbon exposure and attention in a prospective birth cohort of urban children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 859-864

  Chiu, Yueh Hsiu Mathilda ^a   Bellinger, David C ^b,c   Coull, Brent A ^c   Anderson, Shawn ^d   Barber, Rachel ^d   Wright, Robert O ^a   Wright, Rosalind J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Children; Conners' Continuous Performance Test; Hit reaction time; Traffic related air pollution; Urban

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; LEAD;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STRESS; TOBACCO; TRAFFIC;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84879590019     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205940     Document Type: Article

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