ArticleInternational journal of health geographics2009
Risk of congenital anomalies around a municipal solid waste incinerator: a GIS-based case-control study.
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- Residential exposure to municipal solid waste incinerators and health effects: a systematic review with meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Municipal Solid Waste Management and Adverse Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Supporting the investigation of health outcomes due to airborne emission by different approaches: current evidence for the waste incineration sector.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- Association of social determinants with the severity of congenital heart disease.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- The Management of Health Hazards Related to Municipal Solid Waste on Fire in Europe: An Environmental Justice Issue?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Estimating Particulate Exposure from Modern Municipal Waste Incinerators in Great Britain.Environmental science & technology · 2017Article
- Does maternal exposure to benzene and PM10 during pregnancy increase the risk of congenital anomalies? A population-based case-control study.The Science of the total environment · 2016Article
- Mapping disease at an approximated individual level using aggregate data: a case study of mapping New Hampshire birth defects.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
- Spatial analysis of health effects of large industrial incinerators in England, 1998-2008: a study using matched case-control areas.BMJ open · 2013Article
- Comparative assessment of particulate air pollution exposure from municipal solid waste incinerator emissions.Journal of environmental and public health · 2013Article
- Residential proximity to environmental hazards and adverse health outcomes.American journal of public health · 2011Review
- Environmental exposures and development.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2010Review
- Association between Environmental Dioxin-Related Toxicants Exposure and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of fertility & sterilityReview
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Abstract
backgroundWaste incineration releases into the environment toxic substances having a teratogenic potential, but little epidemiologic evidence is available on this topic. We aimed at examining the relation between exposure to the emissions from a municipal solid waste incinerator and risk of birth defects in a northern Italy community, using Geographical Information System (GIS) data to estimate exposure and a population-based case-control study design. By modelling the incinerator emissions, we defined in the GIS three areas of increasing exposure according to predicted dioxins concentrations. We mapped the 228 births and induced abortions with diagnosis of congenital anomalies observed during the 1998-2006 period, together with a corresponding series of control births matched for year and hospital of birth/abortion as well as maternal age, using maternal address in the first three months of pregnancy to geocode cases and controls.
resultsAmong women residing in the areas with medium and high exposure, prevalence of anomalies in the offspring was substantially comparable to that observed in the control population, nor dose-response relations for any of the major categories of birth defects emerged. Furthermore, odds ratio for congenital anomalies did not decrease during a prolonged shut-down period of the plant.
conclusionOverall, these findings do not lend support to the hypothesis that the environmental contamination occurring around an incineration plant such as that examined in this study may induce major teratogenic effects.
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