A nested case-control study indicating heavy metal residues in meconium associate with maternal gestational diabetes mellitus risk

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Peng, Siyuan ^a   Liu, Liangpo ^a   Zhang, Xueqin ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^c   Zhang, Jie ^a   Schramm, Karl Werner ^c,d   Huang, Qingyu ^a   Tian, Meiping ^a   Eqani, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah ^e   Shen, Heqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Xiamen Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

China; Gestational diabetes mellitus; Heavy metals; Meconium

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIABETES; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FECES; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; HEAVY METAL; MATERNAL HEALTH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MECONIUM; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA; FUJIAN; XIAMEN;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

ADULT; ARSENIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MECONIUM; METALS, HEAVY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928712496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-015-0004-0     Document Type: Article

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