| Blood and urine levels of long half-life toxicants by nativity among immigrants to the United States. | |
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PMID: 22088424 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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One's place of birth is a major determinant of his or her exposure to environmental toxicants. By understanding biological burdens of long half-life toxicants by race and nativity we can better understand geographic variation in toxicant distribution. We used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2006) biomonitoring data to examine differences in blood and urine levels of long half-life environmental toxicants of foreign-born relative to US-born people by race/ethnicity. We log transformed blood and urine measures of 51 environmental toxicants. We then used "seemingly unrelated regression," a robust technique for making multiple comparisons across a group of variables with correlated error terms, to examine differences in blood and urine toxicants by nativity and race. We found that, compared to native-born Americans, the foreign-born are generally more likely to be exposed to metals (p<0.001) and organochlorine pesticides (p<0.001), but less likely to be exposed to dioxin-like compounds (p<0.001) or polyflourinated compounds (p<0.001). While levels of toxicants varied greatly by region of birth, US-born participants had consistently higher levels of dioxin-like compounds and polyflourinated compounds. |
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Peter Muennig; Xiaoyu Song; Devon C Payne-Sturges; Gilbert C Gee |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-11-14 |
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Title: The Science of the total environment Volume: - ISSN: 1879-1026 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Nov |
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Created Date: 2011-11-17 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0330500 Medline TA: Sci Total Environ Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 600 West 168th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10032, USA. |
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