Perfluoroalkyl substances and time to pregnancy in couples from Greenland, Poland and Ukraine

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jørgensen, Kristian T ^a   Specht, Ina O ^a   Lenters, Virissa ^b   Bach, Cathrine C ^c   Rylander, Lars ^d   Jönsson, Bo A G ^d   Lindh, Christian H ^d   Giwercman, Aleksander ^e   Heederik, Dick ^b   Toft, Gunnar ^c   Bonde, Jens Peter ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Infertility; Perfluorinated compounds; Persistent environmental pollutants

Indexed keywords

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE; PERFLUOROHEXANE SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUORONONANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALKANESULFONIC ACID; FLUOROCARBON; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PERFLUOROHEXANESULFONIC ACID; POLLUTANT; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

FECUNDITY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GREENLAND; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; POLAND; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME TO PREGNANCY; UKRAINE; BLOOD; FAMILY SIZE; MALE; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; POLAND; UKRAINE;

ADULT; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CAPRYLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; GREENLAND; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; PREGNANCY; SULFONIC ACIDS; TIME-TO-PREGNANCY; UKRAINE;

EID: 84926474797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-116     Document Type: Article

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