Urinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites and bisphenol a and associations with follicular-phase length, luteal-phase length, fecundability, and early pregnancy loss

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 321-328

  Jukic, Anne Marie ^a   Calafat, Antonia M ^b   Robert McConnaughey, D ^c   Longnecker, Matthew P ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^a,d   Weinberg, Clarice R ^a   Wilcox, Allen J ^a   Baird, Donna D ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c WESTAT   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; PHTHALIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY LOSS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; VAGINA BLEEDING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; FERTILITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TOXICITY; URINE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; PHENOLS; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST;

EID: 84959267719     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408164     Document Type: Article

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