Concentration of lead, mercury, cadmium, aluminum, arsenic and manganese in umbilical cord blood of Jamaican newborns

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 4481-4501

  Rahbar, Mohammad H ^a,b,c   Samms Vaughan, Maureen ^d   Dickerson, Aisha S ^c   Hessabi, Manouchehr ^c   Bressler, Jan ^a   Desai, Charlene Coore ^d   Shakespeare Pellington, Sydonnie ^d   Reece, Jody Ann ^d   Morgan, Renee ^d   Loveland, Katherine A ^b   Grove, Megan L ^a   Boerwinkle, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Arsenic; Cadmium; Cord blood; Jamaica; Lead; Manganese; Mercury; Newborns

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; HEAVY METAL;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BLOOD; BODY SIZE; CADMIUM; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAMAICA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FETUS BLOOD; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

JAMAICA;

ADULT; ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BIRTH WEIGHT; CADMIUM; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MANGANESE; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929378731     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph120504481     Document Type: Article

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