Environmental chemicals in urine and blood: Improving methods for creatinine and lipid adjustment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 220-227

  O’Brien, Katie M ^a   Upson, Kristen ^b   Cook, Nancy R ^c   Weinberg, Clarice R ^a  

^a Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIPID METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URINE;

BIOMARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84956624803     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509693     Document Type: Article

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