Diabetes prevalence in relation to serum concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congener groups and three chlorinated pesticides in a Native American population

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1376-1383

  Aminov, Zafar ^a,b   Haase, Richard ^b   Rej, Robert ^c   Schymura, Maria J ^a   Santiago Rivera, Azara ^b,e   Morse, Gayle ^b,f   de Caprio, Anthony ^g   Carpenter, David O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d Akwesasne Mohawk Nation   (United States)

^e THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

^f Russell Sage College   (United States)

^g FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MIREX; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POLLUTANT; PREVALENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PESTICIDES; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84985031093     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509902     Document Type: Article

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