Maternal pesticide exposure and risk of birth defects: a population-based cross-sectional study in China
Fangfang Liu, Xiayang Li, Jie Chen, Yishuai Huang, Shaonong Dang · 2024
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Fangfang Liu and four co-authors link a mother's contact with pesticides around conception to birth defects in her child, in a 2024 journal article. The study draws on a large survey in Shaanxi Province in northwest China. It covers births from 2010 to 2013.
The survey held 29,204 women, and 562 of their babies had a birth defect. Defects were far more common in the group with pesticide contact than in the group without it. After the team weighed age, food, and other factors, contact still more than doubled the risk of defects overall. The risk of heart defects in the child ran about three times as high. The authors urge care with farm chemicals for women who may conceive.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fangfang Liu, Xiayang Li, Jie Chen, Yishuai Huang, Shaonong Dang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |