Toxic metal levels in children residing in a smelting craft village in Vietnam: A pilot biomonitoring study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sanders, Alison P ^a   Miller, Sloane K ^a   Nguyen, Viet ^b   Kotch, Jonathan B ^b   Fry, Rebecca C ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT;

BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MALE; MINING; PILOT STUDY; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIET NAM;

ARSENIC; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; PILOT PROJECTS; POISONING; VIETNAM;

EID: 84893163293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-114     Document Type: Article

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