Health risk assessment of dietary cadmium intake: Do current guidelines indicate how much is safe?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 284-288

  Satarug, Soisungwan ^a,b   Vesey, David A ^a   Gobe, Glenda C ^a  

^a TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; CADMIUM; CREATININE; KIDNEY INJURY MOLECULE 1; DANGEROUS GOODS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRUSTACEA; DIET; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLLUSC; NOTE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHELLFISH; SPINACH; SWEDISH CITIZEN; URINARY CADMIUM EXCRETION; URINARY EXCRETION; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

CADMIUM; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85014409598     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP108     Document Type: Note

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