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Article: Impact of smoking and thiocyanate on perchlorate and thyroid hormone associations in the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.(Research)(Clinical report)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Perchlorate has been used by the aerospace industry as an oxidizer in solid rocket propellant, slurry explosives, road flares, and air bag inflation systems. Human environmental exposure can occur through food or water after industrial contamination or from perchlorate that is naturally occurring. In a recent analysis of data from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), detectable levels of perchlorate were found in the urine of all 2,820 U.S. residents assessed (Blount et al. 2006b). Further analysis of the 2001-2002 NHANES data also identified an association between urinary levels of perchlorate and decreased levels of serum thyroxine ...