Early Child Development Collection

Prenatal exposure of the northern Québec Inuit infants to environmental contaminants

2001

Muckle, G., Ayotte, P., Dewailly, E., Jacobson, S.W., & Jacobson, J.L.

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In this article, the authors report on the magnitude of prenatal exposure to environmental contaminants and associations with selective nutrients in Inuit mothers and their newborns in Nunavik (Quebec). The authors conducted interviews during the women's pregnancies and during postpartum and collected biological samples (hair and blood) for specific contaminants.

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Prenatal exposure of the northern Québec Inuit infants to environmental contaminants.

Muckle, G., Ayotte, P., Dewailly, E., Jacobson, S.W., & Jacobson, J.L. (2001). Prenatal exposure of the northern Québec Inuit infants to environmental contaminants. Environmental Health Perspectives, 109(12), 1291-99.

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