Mercury exposure in relation to sleep duration, timing, and fragmentation among adolescents in Mexico City.

CONCLUSIONS: There were mostly null associations between Hg exposure and sleep characteristics among Mexican children. Yet, in both boys and girls, higher Hg exposure in mid-childhood (measured in urine and blood, respectively) was related to later sleep timing in adolescence. PMID: 32956656 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32956656?dopt=Abstract

Source: Environmental Research - September 17, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jansen EC, Hector EC, Goodrich JM, Cantoral A, Téllez Rojo MM, Basu N, Song PXK, Olascoaga LT, Peterson KE Tags: Environ Res Source Type: research