Transfer of perfluoroalkyl substances from mother to fetus in a Spanish birth cohort

Environmental Research

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 471-478

  Manzano Salgado, Cyntia B ^a,b,c   Casas, Maribel ^a,b,c   Lopez Espinosa, Maria Jose ^c,d   Ballester, Ferran ^c,d   Basterrechea, Mikel ^c,e,f   Grimalt, Joan O ^g,h   Jiménez, Ana María ^e,f   Kraus, Thomas ⁱ   Schettgen, Thomas ⁱ   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c   Vrijheid, Martine ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e Public Health Department of Gipuzkoa   (Spain)

^f BIODONOSTIA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^h CSIC   (Spain)

ⁱ RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cord blood; INMA; Mother child pairs; Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; PERFLUOROBUTANE SULFONATE; PERFLUOROHEXANE SULFONATE; PERFLUORONONANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLUOROCARBON; POLLUTANT;

BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTRACEPTIVE USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLASMA; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; SERUM; SULFONATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORD SERUM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL PLASMA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SPANIARD; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS BLOOD; MALE; PHARMACOKINETICS; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

SPAIN;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84938902234     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.07.020     Document Type: Article

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