ArticleToxics2018
Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Pesticides and Preterm Birth and Term Low Birthweight in Agricultural Regions of California.
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- Interactive effects of maternal exposure to chemical fertilizer and socio-economic status on the risk of low birth weight.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Metabolites from midtrimester plasma of pregnant patients at high risk for preterm birth.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2021Article
- Comparison of Thyroid Hormone Levels between Women Farmers and Non-Farmers in Banten Indonesia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Psychometric Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Perception and Knowledge About Exposure to Pesticides in Rural Schoolchildren of Maule, Chile.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Neurological Sequela of Acute Pesticide Poisoning Among Adults in Central Taiwan.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Findings from studies of prenatal exposure to pesticides and adverse birth outcomes have been equivocal so far. We examined prenatal exposure to agricultural pesticides in relation to preterm birth and term low birthweight, respectively, in children born between 1998 and 2010, randomly selected from California birth records. We estimated residential exposure to agriculturally applied pesticides within 2 km of residential addresses at birth by pregnancy trimester for 17 individual pesticides and three chemical classes (organophosphates, pyrethroids, and carbamates). Among maternal addresses located within 2 km of any agricultural pesticide application, we identified 24,693 preterm and 220,297 term births, and 4412 term low birthweight and 194,732 term normal birthweight infants. First or second trimester exposure to individual pesticides (e.g., glyphosates, paraquat, imidacloprid) or exposure to 2 or more pesticides in the three chemical classes were associated with a small increase (3⁻7%) in risk for preterm birth; associations were stronger for female offspring. We did not find associations between term low birthweight and exposure to pesticides other than myclobutanil (OR: 1.11; 95% CI: 1.04⁻1.20) and possibly the pyrethroids class. Our improved exposure assessment revealed that first and second trimester exposure to pesticides is associated with preterm delivery but is rarely linked with term low birthweight.
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