Intake of Phthalate-tainted Foods and Serum Thyroid Hormones in Taiwanese Children and Adolescents

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tsai, Hui Ju ^a,b   Wu, Chia Fang ^b   Tsai, Yi Chun ^a   Huang, Po Chin ^c   Chen, Mei Lien ^d   Wang, Shu Li ^c   Chen, Bai Hsiun ^a,e   Chen, Chu Chih ^c   Wu, Wen Chiu ^f   Hsu, Pi Shan ^g   Hsiung, Chao A ^c   Wu, Ming Tsang ^a,b,e  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f Bali Mental Hospital   (Taiwan)

^g Taichung Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; THYROID HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; MALE; TAIWAN; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 84980413863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30589     Document Type: Article

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