Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation

Taylor, P R; Lawrence, C E; Hwang, H L; Paulson, A S

doi:10.2105/AJPH.74.10.1153

Title: Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation

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Fifty-one infants born to women employed at two capacitor manufacturing facilities with a history of high exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had a mean birthweight of 153 grams less than that of 337 infants born to women who had worked in low-exposure areas (90 per cent confidence interval, -286 to -20 g); mean gestational age was 6.6 days shorter in the high-exposure infants (90 per cent CI, -10.3 to -2.9 days). After adjusting for gestational age, the difference in birthweight was markedly reduced, indicating that the observed reduction in birthweight was due mainly to shortening of gestational age in the high-exposure group.

Authors:: Taylor, P R; Lawrence, C E; Hwang, H L; Paulson, A S

Publication Date:: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

Research Org.:: New York State Dept. of Health, Albany

OSTI Identifier:: 6265507

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Am. J. Public Health; (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 74:10

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HEALTH HAZARDS; INFANTS; WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL; PROGENY; WOMEN; AGE GROUPS; ANIMALS; AROMATICS; CHILDREN; FEMALES; HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HAZARDS; MAMMALS; MAN; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES; 560306* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Man- (-1987)

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                    Taylor, P R, Lawrence, C E, Hwang, H L, and Paulson, A S. Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation.  United States: N. p., 1984. 
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                    Taylor, P R, Lawrence, C E, Hwang, H L, & Paulson, A S. Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.74.10.1153

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                    Taylor, P R, Lawrence, C E, Hwang, H L, and Paulson, A S. 1984.  
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  title        = {Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation},

  author       = {Taylor, P R and Lawrence, C E and Hwang, H L and Paulson, A S},

  abstractNote = {Fifty-one infants born to women employed at two capacitor manufacturing facilities with a history of high exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had a mean birthweight of 153 grams less than that of 337 infants born to women who had worked in low-exposure areas (90 per cent confidence interval, -286 to -20 g); mean gestational age was 6.6 days shorter in the high-exposure infants (90 per cent CI, -10.3 to -2.9 days). After adjusting for gestational age, the difference in birthweight was markedly reduced, indicating that the observed reduction in birthweight was due mainly to shortening of gestational age in the high-exposure group.},

  doi          = {10.2105/AJPH.74.10.1153},

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  journal      = {Am. J. Public Health; (United States)},
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  volume       = 74:10,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984},

  month        = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984}

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