Multiple environmental chemical exposures to lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls among childbearing-aged women (NHANES 1999-2004): Body burden and risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are neurotoxicants with intergenerational health consequences from maternal body burden and gestational exposures. Little is known about multiple chemical exposures among childbearing-aged women.

Objectives

To determine the percentage of women aged 16-49 of diverse races and ethnicities whose body burdens for all three xenobiotics were at or above the median; to identify mixed exposures; and to describe those women disproportionately burdened by two or more of these chemicals based on susceptibility- and exposure-related attributes, socioeconomic factors and race-ethnicity.

Methods

Secondary data analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2004).

Results

The best-fit logistic r

SUBMITTER: Thompson MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3578119 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature