Neighborhood deprivation, race/ethnicity, and urinary metal concentrations among young girls in California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although metals can adversely impact children's health, the distribution of exposures to many metals, particularly among vulnerable subpopulations, is not well characterized.

Objectives

We sought to determine whether neighborhood deprivation was associated with urinary concentrations of thirteen metals and whether observed relationships varied by race/ethnicity.

Methods

We obtained neighborhood characteristics from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey. Demographic information and urine samples from 400 healthy young girls in Northern California were obtained during a clinical visit. Urine samples were analyzed for metals using inductively-coupled plasma-mass spectrometry and levels were corrected for creatinine. We ran analysis of variance and generalize

SUBMITTER: Gonzales FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360017 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature