Body mass index in young school-age children in relation to organochlorine compounds in early life: a prospective study.

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To investigate the association between maternal pregnancy and estimated postnatal serum concentrations of the organochlorines 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (CB-153) and 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (p,p'-DDE) and body mass index (BMI) z-scores in 5- to 9-year-old children.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Int J Obes (Lond)

Title: International journal of obesity (2005)

ISSN (Electronic): 1476-5497

ISSN (Print): 0307-0565

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2014

Volume: 38

Issue: 7

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[1 ] Danish Ramazzini Centre, Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark.

[2 ] Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.

[3 ] Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark.

[4 ] Primary Health Care Clinic, Nuuk, Greenland.

[5 ] Department of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, National Institute of Public Health-National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland.

[6 ] Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Public Health, Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

[7 ] Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

[8 ] Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

[9 ] Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen NV, Denmark.

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Publisher Item ID: ijo201458

DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2014.58

PubMed ID: 24718355

SO-VID: baf8c571-6e5c-409e-8e42-794857f1e628

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