Cross-sectional associations between exposure to persistent organic pollutants and Leukocyte telomere length among U.S. adults in NHANES, 2001–2002

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 651-658

  Mitro, Susanna D ^a   Birnbaum, Linda S ^b   Needham, Belinda L ^c   Zota, Ami R ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; COTININE; DIOXIN; FURAN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY MASS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; UNITED STATES; NUTRITION; POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELOMERE; TOXICITY;

BENZOFURANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXINS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TELOMERE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964901051     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510187     Document Type: Article

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