ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2003
The use of pesticides in a Polish rural population and its effect on birth weight.
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- Pesticide exposure and child growth in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Environmental research · 2022Pooled it
- Non-cancer health effects of pesticides: systematic review and implications for family doctors.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2007Pooled it
- Prenatal Exposure to Organochlorine Compounds and Other Pesticides: A Systematic Review of Neonatal Health Outcomes.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2026Article
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- Mobile Robot + IoT: Project of Sustainable Technology for Sanitizing Broiler Poultry Litter.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A narrative review of converging evidence addressing developmental toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides.Critical reviews in toxicology · 2022Review
- Prenatal exposure to insecticides and child cardiometabolic risk factors in the VHEMBE birth cohort.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Article
- Predictive models for small-for-gestational-age births in women exposed to pesticides before pregnancy based on multiple machine learning algorithms.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Prenatal exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and size at birth in urban pregnant women.Environmental research · 2021Article
- Cypermethrin Impairs Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Cognitive Functions by Altering Neural Fate Decisions in the Rat Brain.Molecular neurobiology · 2021Article
- Association between Prenatal Exposure to Household Pesticides and Neonatal Weight and Length Growth in the Japan Environment and Children's Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Combined Maternal Exposure to Cypermethrin and Stress Affect Embryonic Brain and Placental Outcomes in Mice.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2020Article
- Long Term Perinatal Deltamethrin Exposure Alters Electrophysiological Properties of Embryonic Ventricular Cardiomyocyte.Current medical science · 2019Article
- Maternal peripartum urinary pyrethroid metabolites are associated with thinner children at 3.5 years in the VHEMBE birth cohort (Limpopo, South Africa).Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2018Article
- Prenatal exposure to pyrethroid insecticides and birth outcomes in Rural Northern China.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2015Article
- Occupational risks and pregnancy and infant health outcomes in Florida farmworkers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
- Paraoxonase 1 polymorphism and prenatal pesticide exposure associated with adverse cardiovascular risk profiles at school age.PloS one · 2012Article
- Lower birth weight and increased body fat at school age in children prenatally exposed to modern pesticides: a prospective study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2011Article
- Exposure to pesticides and heavy work in greenhouses during pregnancy: does it effect birth weight?International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2005Article
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Abstract
introductionThe risk of adverse reproductive outcomes related to pesticide exposure has been investigated in few studies; however, the results have not been consistent. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the influence of maternal residual exposure to pesticides on birth weight among women in an agricultural district in Central Poland.
methodSubjects included 104 women who delivered a single, live infant between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 2000. Based on maternal reports, the type of farming (crops, orchards, non-farming jobs), involvement in field work and the trade names of pesticides used within last pregnancy were established. Birth weight for the most recent pregnancy was abstracted from the medical data of the local maternity unit.
resultsMothers who reported involvement in field work had a similar pregnancy duration but delivered infants with a significantly higher birth weight than mothers not reporting such activities in the first or second trimester of pregnancy (P=0.04). However, after controlling for pregnancy duration and other factors affecting birth weight, we found that maternal exposure to synthetic pyrethroids in the first or second trimester was associated with a small but statistically significant decrease in birth weight (P=0.02).
conclusionsWe postulate that the observed effect of pyrethroids exposure was related to a slower pace of foetal development corresponding to the small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth.
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