在墨西哥儿童中,产前暴露于酸盐及其混合物与肺功能之间的关联

Cheng-Yang Hu1, Cecilia S Alcala2, Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa3

  • 1Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.

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概括

产前暴露于甲酸盐对儿童肺功能的影响在男孩和女孩中不同. 怀孕期间甲酸盐水平较高与女性肺功能更好,男性肺功能较差有关.

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