Assessment of prenatal exposure to arsenic in Tenerife Island.

INTRODUCTION: Increasing awareness of the potential chronic health effects of arsenic (As) at low exposure levels has motivated efforts to better understand impaired child development during pregnancy by biomarkers of exposure. The aims of this study were to evaluate the prenatal exposure to As by a...

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Main Authors: Oriol Vall, Mario Gómez-Culebras, Oscar Garcia-Algar, Xavier Joya, Dinoraz Velez, Eva Rodríguez-Carrasco, Carme Puig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3508998?pdf=render