Prenatal and postnatal serum PCB concentrations and cochlear function in children at 45 months of age

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1246-1252

  Jusko, Todd A ^a   Sisto, Renata ^b   Iosif, Ana Maria ^c   Moleti, Arturo ^d   Wimmerová, Soňa ^e   Lancz, Kinga ^e   Tihányi, Juraj ^e   Šovčíková, Eva ^e   Drobná, Beata ^e   Palkovičová, L’ubica ^e   Jurečková, Dana ^f   Thevenet Morrison, Kelly ^a   Verner, Marc André ^g,h   Sonneborn, Dean ^c   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^c   Trnovec, Tomáš ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^f The tefan Kukura Hospital and Policlinic   (Slovakia)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; 2,4,5,2',4',5'-HEXACHLOROBIPHENYL; POLLUTANT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL BLOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOSCOPY; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND PRESSURE; TYMPANOMETRY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS BLOOD; HEARING LOSS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLOVAKIA; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84911452714     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307473     Document Type: Article

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