A longitudinal study of urinary phthalate excretion in 58 full-term and 67 preterm infants from birth through 14 months

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 998-1005

  Frederiksen, Hanne ^a   Kuiri Hänninen, Tanja ^b,c   Main, Katharina M ^a   Dunke, Leo ^c,d   Sankilampi, Ulla ^c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLASTICIZER; POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PREMATURITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URINE;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PLASTICIZERS;

EID: 84906861162     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307569     Document Type: Article

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