High Pesticide Exposure Events and Subjective Cognitive Decline among U.S. Farmers
Yaqun Yuan, Brenda L Plassman, Shengfang Song, Zhehui Luo, Christine G Parks, Julie Fleenor, Corrine Madsen, Heather MacDonald, Scott Davis, Chenxi Li, Jonathan N Hofmann, Laura E Beane Freeman, Dale P Sandler, Honglei Chen · 2025
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Yaqun Yuan and co-authors link major pesticide exposure accidents to later memory complaints among older American farmers, in a 2025 study. The analysis drew on 2,365 mostly white male farmers in Iowa and North Carolina, enrolled in a long-running farm health study in the 1990s and rechecked in 2020 and 2021. Memory decline was scored with a fourteen-item questionnaire.
Farmers who had lived through a high-exposure event, such as a spill soaking the skin, reported significant memory decline more often than those who never had one. The link held across every survey wave in which the events were recorded. Careful weighting handled the study design and missing answers. The authors urge prevention of such accidents as brain protection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yaqun Yuan, Brenda L Plassman, Shengfang Song, Zhehui Luo, Christine G Parks, Julie Fleenor, Corrine Madsen, Heather MacDonald, Scott Davis, Chenxi Li, Jonathan N Hofmann, Laura E Beane Freeman, Dale P Sandler, Honglei Chen |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |