Number of Persistent Organic Pollutants Detected at High Concentrations in Blood Samples of the United States Population

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 8; p. e0160432
• Main Authors: Pumarega, José, Gasull, Magda, Lee, Duk-Hee, López, Tomàs, Porta, Miquel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 10.08.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Air Pollutants - blood; Americans; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Biphenyl; Blood tests; Body mass; Body Mass Index; Body size; Chemical contaminants; Diabetes; Dioxins; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Economic factors; Ethers; Ethnicity; Female; Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers - blood; Health aspects; Health care; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic people; Hispanics; Hospitals; Humans; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated - blood; Lipids; Lymphoma; Lymphomas; Male; Medical laboratories; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metabolites; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Models, Theoretical; Multivariate Analysis; Nutrition; Nutrition Surveys; Odds Ratio; Older people; Organic Chemicals - blood; Organic compounds; Organochlorine compounds; PCB; PCB compounds; People and Places; Persistent organic pollutants; Pesticides; Physical Sciences; Plasma; Pollutants; Polybrominated Biphenyls - blood; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated Biphenyls - blood; Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins - blood; Population; Poverty; Pregnancy; Preventive medicine; Risk assessment; Social factors; Social Sciences; Socio-economic aspects; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Studies; United States; United States; USA

Human exposure to environmental chemicals as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is usually assessed considering each pollutant individually, with little attention to concentrations of mixtures in individuals or social groups. Yet, it may be relatively common for humans to have low and high concent...