Polychlorinated biphenyls: influence on birthweight and gestation
Journal Article
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· Am. J. Public Health; (United States)
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.
- Research Organization:
- New York State Dept. of Health, Albany
- OSTI ID:
- 6265507
- Journal Information:
- Am. J. Public Health; (United States), Vol. 74:10
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
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INFANTS
WEIGHT
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
PERSONNEL
PROGENY
WOMEN
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ANIMALS
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FEMALES
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HAZARDS
MAMMALS
MAN
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ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
PRIMATES
VERTEBRATES
560306* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Man- (-1987)