Blood pressure changes in relation to arsenic exposure in a U.S. pregnancy cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 999-1006

  Farzan, Shohreh F ^a,b,c   Chen, Yu ^c   Wu, Fen ^c   Jiang, Jieying ^c   Liu, Mengling ^c   Baker, Emily ^a,d   Korrick, Susan A ^e,f   Karagas, Margaret R ^a,b  

^a Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARSENIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938356897     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408472     Document Type: Article

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