Analgesic use-prevalence, biomonitoring and endocrine and reproductive effects

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 381-393

  Kristensen, David M ^a   Mazaud Guittot, Séverine ^b   Gaudriault, Pierre ^b   Lesné, Laurianne ^b   Serrano, Tania ^b,c   Main, Katharina M ^a   Jégou, Bernard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c EHESP SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPHENOL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANDROSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANILINE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DICLOFENAC; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; NALOXONE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SALICYLIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; SALICYLURIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ABORTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DISINFECTION; DRUG MARKETING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WHEEZING; ANALGESIA; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; DRUG MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MECONIUM; METABOLISM; MOLAR TOOTH; PAIN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; COMMERCE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DRUG MONITORING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; MECONIUM; MILK, HUMAN; MOLAR; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SALICYLIC ACID; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 84965010103     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.55     Document Type: Review

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