Blood cadmium levels and sources of exposure in an adult urban population in southern Brazil

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• urban population 91%
• cadmium 71%
• blood 65%
• exposure 47%
• milk 13%
• pulmonary disease 10%
• alcohol consumption 9%
• carcinogenicity 8%
• cardiovascular disease 7%
• toxic metal 7%
• smoking 7%
• multivariate analysis 6%
• anthropogenic source 6%
• lifestyle 6%
• meat 6%
• vegetable 6%
• census 6%
• occupation 6%
• alcohol 5%
• income 5%
• education 5%
• mass spectrometry 5%
• household 5%
• plasma 4%
• consumption 4%
• analysis 1%
• method 1%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Urban Population 100%
• Cadmium 93%
• Brazil 74%
• Milk 11%
• Smokers 10%
• Blood Pressure 8%
• Red Meat 7%
• Environmental Exposure 6%
• Censuses 6%
• Occupations 6%
• Vegetables 6%
• Tobacco Products 5%
• Alcohol Drinking 5%
• Mass Spectrometry 5%
• Lung Diseases 5%
• Metals 5%
• Income 5%
• Life Style 5%
• Alcohols 4%
• Poisons 4%
• Smoking 4%
• Cardiovascular Diseases 4%
• Multivariate Analysis 4%
• Interviews 4%
• Hypertension 4%
• Demography 4%
• Education 3%
• Population 2%

Chemical Compounds

• Blood Pressure 15%
• Alcohol 7%
• Inductively Coupled Plasm Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS) 6%
• Toxic 4%
• Red 4%
• Environment 3%
• Metal 2%