Confusion about cadmium risks: The unrecognized limitations of an extrapolated paradigm

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-5

  Bernard, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CREATININE;

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; CADMIUM POISONING; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING CESSATION; TUBULAR DYSFUNCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; URINE;

CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PROTEINURIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84952673918     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509691     Document Type: Article

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