Prenatal triclosan exposure and anthropometric measures including anogenital distance in Danish infants

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1261-1268

  Lassen, Tina Harmer ^a   Frederiksen, Hanne ^a   Kyhl, Henriette Boye ^b   Swan, Shanna H ^c   Main, Katharina M ^a   Andersson, Anna Maria ^a   Lind, Dorte Vesterholm ^d   Husby, Steffen ^b   Wohlfahrt Veje, Christine ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^a   Jensen, Tina Kold ^a,d  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRICLOSAN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; INFANT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; DENMARK; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 84980315376     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409637     Document Type: Article

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