Organochlorine pesticides and risk of endometriosis: Findings from a population-based case-control study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 1319-1324

  Upson, Kristen ^a,b   De Roos, Anneclaire J ^a,b   Thompson, Mary Lou ^a   Sathyanarayana, Sheela ^a,c,d   Scholes, Delia ^a,e   Barr, Dana Boyd ^f   Holt, Victoria L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

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

^d SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LINDANE; LIPIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MIREX; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84888407596     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306648     Document Type: Article

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