Exposure to brominated trihalomethanes in water during pregnancy and micronuclei frequency in maternal and cord blood lymphocytes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-106

  Stayner, Leslie Thomas ^a,b   Pedersen, Marie ^b,c,d   Patelarou, Evridiki ^e,f   Decordier, Ilse ^g   Vande Loock, Kim ^g   Chatzi, Leda ^f   Espinosa, Ana ^b,c,h   Fthenou, Eleni ^f   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^b,c,d   Gracia Lavedan, Esther ^b   Stephanou, Euripides G ^f   Kirsch Volders, Micheline ^g   Kogevinas, Manolis ^b,c,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^h HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

ⁱ NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVIEW; LYMPHOCYTE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL SMOKING; MICRONUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN ABSORPTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; PREGNANCY; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84891518301     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206434     Document Type: Article

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