Associations between prenatal mercury exposure and early child development in the ALSPAC study

•Prenatal blood mercury was measured in >2000 women linked their offspring’s development at 4 time points.•Adjusted associations indicated that the higher the level of blood mercury the more advanced the child’s development.•Adjustment of the analyses for blood selenium did not alter the results....

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Main Authors: Golding, Jean, Gregory, Steven, Iles-Caven, Yasmin, Hibbeln, Joseph, Emond, Alan, Taylor, Caroline M
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819890/