ArticleJournal of agromedicine2010
Maternal pesticide use and birth weight in the agricultural health study.
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- Glyphosate and adverse pregnancy outcomes, a systematic review of observational studies.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
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- Glyphosate: Hepatotoxicity, Nephrotoxicity, Hemotoxicity, Carcinogenicity, and Clinical Cases of Endocrine, Reproductive, Cardiovascular, and Pulmonary System Intoxication.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2024Review
- Glyphosate exposure in early pregnancy and reduced fetal growth: a prospective observational study of high-risk pregnancies.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Observational
- Prenatal Exposure to Glyphosate and Its Environmental Degradate, Aminomethylphosphonic Acid (AMPA), and Preterm Birth: A Nested Case-Control Study in the PROTECT Cohort (Puerto Rico).Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- Glyphosate Herbicide: Reproductive Outcomes and Multigenerational Effects.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
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- Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy and shortened gestational length: a prospective Indiana birth cohort study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2018Article
- Environmental chemicals and preterm birth: Biological mechanisms and the state of the science.Current epidemiology reports · 2017Article
- EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals.Endocrine reviews · 2015Review
- Persistent organic pollutants as risk factors for type 2 diabetes.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2015Article
- Self-reported parental exposure to pesticide during pregnancy and birth outcomes: the MecoExpo cohort study.PloS one · 2014Article
- Environmental contaminant exposures and preterm birth: a comprehensive review.Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part B, Critical reviews · 2013Review
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Abstract
Studies examining the association between maternal pesticide exposure and low birth weight yield conflicting results. The authors examined the association between maternal pesticide use and birth weight among women in the Agricultural Health Study, a large study of pesticide applicators and their spouses in Iowa and North Carolina. The authors evaluated self-reported pesticide use of 27 individual pesticides in relation to birth weight among 2246 farm women whose most recent singleton birth occurred within 5 years of enrollment (1993-1997). The authors used linear regression models adjusted for site, preterm birth, medical parity, maternal body mass index, height, and smoking. The results showed that mean infant birth weight was 3586 g (+/- 546 g), and 3% of the infants were low birth weight (<2500 g). First-trimester pesticide-related tasks were not associated with birth weight. Ever use of the pesticide carbaryl was associated with decreased birth weight (-82 g, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -132, -31). This study thus provides limited evidence about pesticide use as a modulator of birth weight. Overall, the authors observed no associations between birth weight and pesticide-related activities during early pregnancy; however, the authors have no data on temporal specificity of individual pesticide exposures prior to or during pregnancy and therefore cannot draw conclusions related to these exposure windows. Given the widespread exposure to pesticide products, additional evaluation of maternal pregnancy exposures at specific time windows and subsequent birth outcomes is warranted.
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