Personal care product use and urinary phthalate metabolite and paraben concentrations during pregnancy among women from a fertility clinic

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 459-466

  Braun, Joe M ^a   Just, Allan C ^b   Williams, Paige L ^b   Smith, Kristen W ^b   Calafat, Antonia M ^c   Hauser, Russ ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

endocrine disruptors; epidemiology; mixtures; parabens; phthalates

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COSMETIC; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; URINE;

BIOMARKERS; BOSTON; COSMETICS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PARABENS; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84906794243     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2013.69     Document Type: Article

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