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Wang L, Wu T, Liu X, et al. Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and low birth weight. WHO South East Asia J Public Health. 2012;1(3):232-238doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.207019.
Wang, L., Wu, T., Liu, X., Anderson, J. L., Alamian, A., Fu, M., & Li, J. (2012). Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and low birth weight. WHO South-East Asia journal of public health, 1(3), 232-238. https://doi.org/10.4103/2224-3151.207019
Wang, Liang, et al. "Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and low birth weight." WHO South-East Asia journal of public health vol. 1,3 (2012): 232-238. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/2224-3151.207019
Wang L, Wu T, Liu X, Anderson JL, Alamian A, Fu M, Li J. Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and low birth weight. WHO South East Asia J Public Health. 2012 Jul-Sep;1(3):232-238. doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.207019. PMID: 28615549.
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WHO South East Asia J Public Health. 2012 Jul-Sep;1(3):232-238. doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.207019.

Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and low birth weight.

WHO South-East Asia journal of public health

Liang Wang, Tiejian Wu, Xuefeng Liu, James L Anderson, Arsham Alamian, Maosun Fu, Jun Li

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America.
  2. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University; Department of Family Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America.
  3. School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 28615549 DOI: 10.4103/2224-3151.207019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Limited epidemiologic studies have investigated the effects of pesticide exposure during pregnancy on low birth weight in offspring in rural China.

METHODS: A survey of a total of 503 women was conducted in Ling county of Shandong Province of China following delivery from 1 November 2009 to 8 February 2010.

RESULTS: After adjustment for confounding and compared with no pesticide exposure, multiple logistic regression showed a non-significant increased likelihood of low birth weight for both children of mothers exposed to pesticides when not pregnant (OR = 1.80, 95% CI: 0.62, 5.22) and mothers exposed to pesticides during pregnancy (OR = 2.42, 95% CI: 0.73, 8.08); multiple linear regression showed a non-significant reduced birth weight for both children of mothers exposed to pesticides when not pregnant (β=-0.59, p=0.28) and mothers exposed to pesticides during pregnancy (β=-0.89, p=0.15).

CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to pesticides during pregnancy was associated with a non-significant increase in low birth weight in this rural Chinese population. Future studies using larger sample sizes and longer follow-up periods are warranted.

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