ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
PFAS-contaminated drinking water harms infants.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Chronic Perfluorooctanoic Acid Exposure in Young Adult Zebrafish Affects Scale and Internal Skeleton Bone Metabolism, as Well as Offspring Bone Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Occurrence of PFAS in municipal drinking water: a participatory case study in London, UK.Environmental science. Advances · 2026Article
- How to destroy "forever chemicals" for good.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- PFAS-contaminated drinking water harms infants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
There is evidence of widespread human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) but limited evidence of the human health impacts of this exposure. Using data on New Hampshire births from 2010-2019, we show that mothers receiving water that had flowed beneath a PFAS-contaminated site, as opposed to comparable mothers receiving water that had flowed toward a PFAS-contaminated site, had 191% [95% CI: 83-298%] higher first-year infant mortality (611 [268-955] additional first-year deaths per 100k births); 168% [42-294%] more births before 28 wk of gestational age (466 [116-817] additional such births per 100k births); and 180% [57-302%] more births with weight below 1,000 g (607 [192-1022] additional such births per 100k births). Extrapolating to the contiguous U.S., PFAS contamination imposes annual social costs of approximately $8 billion. These health costs are substantially larger than current outside estimates of the cost of removing PFAS from the public water supply.
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