Journal article
Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Performance in Agricultural and Nonagricultural Hispanic Workers
Environmental health perspectives, Vol.114(5), pp.691-696
05/2006
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8182
PMCID: PMC1459921
PMID: 16675422
Abstract
Our understanding of the health risks of farmworkers exposed to pesticides in their work and home environments is rapidly increasing, although studies designed to examine the possible neurobehavioral effects of low-level chronic pesticide exposure are limited. We measured dialkyl phosphate urinary metabolite levels, collected environmental dust samples from a subset of homes, obtained information on work practices, and conducted neurobehavioral tests on a sample of farmworkers in Oregon. Significant correlations between urinary methyl metabolite levels and total methyl organophosphate (azinphos-methyl, phosmet, malathion) house dust levels were observed. We found the neurobehavioral performance of Hispanic immigrant farmworkers to be lower than that observed in a nonagricultural Hispanic immigrant population, and within the sample of agricultural workers there was a positive correlation between urinary organophosphate metabolite levels and poorer performance on some neurobehavioral tests. These findings add to an increasing body of evidence of the association between low levels of pesticide exposure and deficits in neurobehavioral performance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Performance in Agricultural and Nonagricultural Hispanic Workers
- Creators
- Joan Rothlein - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USADiane Rohlman - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMichael Lasarev - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAJackie Phillips - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAJuan Muniz - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USALinda McCauley - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental health perspectives, Vol.114(5), pp.691-696
- DOI
- 10.1289/ehp.8182
- PMID
- 16675422
- PMCID
- PMC1459921
- NLM abbreviation
- Environ Health Perspect
- ISSN
- 0091-6765
- eISSN
- 1552-9924
- Publisher
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2006
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; International Programs; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9983997344402771
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