Journal article
The use of pesticides in a Polish rural population and its effect on birth weight
International archives of occupational and environmental health, Vol.76(8), pp.614-620
10/2003
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-003-0471-4
PMID: 12955525
Abstract
The risk of adverse reproductive outcomes related to pesticide exposure has been investigated in few studies; however, the results have not been consistent. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the influence of maternal residual exposure to pesticides on birth weight among women in an agricultural district in Central Poland.
Subjects included 104 women who delivered a single, live infant between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 2000. Based on maternal reports, the type of farming (crops, orchards, non-farming jobs), involvement in field work and the trade names of pesticides used within last pregnancy were established. Birth weight for the most recent pregnancy was abstracted from the medical data of the local maternity unit.
Mothers who reported involvement in field work had a similar pregnancy duration but delivered infants with a significantly higher birth weight than mothers not reporting such activities in the first or second trimester of pregnancy (P=0.04). However, after controlling for pregnancy duration and other factors affecting birth weight, we found that maternal exposure to synthetic pyrethroids in the first or second trimester was associated with a small but statistically significant decrease in birth weight (P=0.02).
We postulate that the observed effect of pyrethroids exposure was related to a slower pace of foetal development corresponding to the small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The use of pesticides in a Polish rural population and its effect on birth weight
- Creators
- Wojciech Hanke - Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 8 Teresy St., 90-950 Lodz, Poland. wojt@imp.lodz.plPaul RomittiLaurence FuortesWojciech SobalaMarek Mikulski
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International archives of occupational and environmental health, Vol.76(8), pp.614-620
- Publisher
- Germany
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00420-003-0471-4
- PMID
- 12955525
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
- eISSN
- 1432-1246
- Grant note
- P30 ES05605 / NIEHS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2003
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983995042202771
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