Effect of hemoglobin adjustment on the precision of mercury concentrations in maternal and cord blood

Environmental Research

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 407-412

  Kim, Byung Mi ^a,b   Choi, Anna L ^a   Ha, Eun Hee ^b   Pedersen, Lise ^c   Nielsen, Flemming ^d   Weihe, Pal ^e   Hong, Yun Chul ^f   Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^g   Grandjean, Philippe ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

^f Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood analysis; Hemoglobin; Methylmercury; Prenatal exposure; Selenium

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM;

BIOMARKER; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEMOGLOBIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; NEUROLOGY; SELENIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HEAVY METAL BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

KOREA;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLMERCURY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SELENIUM;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; SELENIUM;

EID: 84901012415     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.04.030     Document Type: Article

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