Open AccessMaternal Blood Manganese and Early Neurodevelopment: The Mothers and Children’s Environmental Health (MOCEH) Study
Author(s) -
Soo Eun Chung,
Hae-Kwan Cheong,
Eun Hee Ha,
Boong Nyun Kim,
Mina Ha,
Yangho Kim,
Yun Chul Hong,
Hyesook Park,
Se Young Oh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1307865
Subject(s) - confounding , medicine , manganese , population , psychomotor learning , pediatrics , offspring , bayley scales of infant development , physiology , obstetrics , pregnancy , environmental health , chemistry , biology , cognition , psychiatry , organic chemistry , genetics
Manganese is an essential trace element and common component of water, soil, and air. Prenatal manganese exposure may affect fetal and infantile neurodevelopment, but reports on in utero manganese exposure and infant neurodevelopment are rare.