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ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2018

Effects of pesticide exposure on reproductivity of male groundnut farmers in Kyauk Kan village, Nyaung-U, Mandalay region, Myanmar.

Thant Zaw Lwin, Aye Aye Than, Aung Zaw Min, Mark Gregory Robson, Wattasit Siriwong

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Article in Risk management and healthcare policy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Systematic Review of Human Poisoning and Toxic Exposures in Myanmar.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  5. Endocrine Disrupting Agents: Toxicological Aspects on Male Reproduction.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025
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  12. Reproductive Health Risks Associated with Occupational and Environmental Exposure to Pesticides.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  15. Influence ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Thant Zaw LwinDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, Defence Services Medical Academy, Yangon, Myanmar.
Aye Aye ThanDefence Services Orthopedics Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar.
Aung Zaw MinMilitary Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences, Yangon, Myanmar.
Mark Gregory RobsonSchool of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Wattasit SiriwongCenter for Risk Analysis and Health Surveillance (C-RAHS), College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, wattasit.s@chula.ac.th.
Chulalongkorn University · THRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of Medical Technology Yangon · MM

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES005022 · NIEHS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI ROBERT John LAUMBACH · 1988 to 2026
$47.4M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionKyauk Kan village of Nyaung-U, Mandalay region, Myanmar is one of the most famous groundnut-growing zones and has been exposed to pesticides.

methodsThis study design provided evaluation of within-person changes in the season across growing and nongrowing periods. A cross-sectional study was performed to identify health problems related to organophosphate pesticide (OP) exposure, to explore the protected use of this pesticide among 400 participants in the community by face-to-face interviews, and to determine the reproductive effects of OP exposure by using biomarkers of 100 male groundnut farmers aged 18-49 years.

resultsThe mean age of the participants was 37.5±9.45 years. Analysis revealed statistically significant differences in seminal parameters (

conclusionOur results suggest that chronic exposure related to OP dose may reduce potential male reproductivity.

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blood cholinesterasemale reproductivitypesticide exposuresemen qualityserum hormone level

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PMID30568520
PMCPMC6276625
OpenAlexW2902909573

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