Evaluación de la exposición a disruptores endocrinos (DEs) persistentes y metales a través de la leche materna en recién nacidos prematuros de muy bajo peso en una Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales (UCIN)

  1. Serrano López, Laura
Supervised by:
  1. Nicolás Olea Serrano Co-director
  2. Carmen Freire Warden Co-director

Defence university: Universidad de Granada

Fecha de defensa: 16 December 2022

Committee:
  1. A. Muñoz Hoyos Chair
  2. María Luisa Fernández Soto Secretary
  3. Caridad Díaz Navarro Committee member
  4. María Ramírez Committee member
  5. J. A. Ortega García Committee member

Type: Thesis

Abstract

In the present Doctoral Thesis, exposure to perfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS), persistent DEs, and nonessential metals such as mercury, arsenic and aluminum, in extremely premature newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been evaluated through the main source of exposure, breast milk, by means of the study of human milk donated to a hospital milk bank.