Assessing Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides by Biomonitoring in Epidemiologic Studies of Birth Outcomes

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• Alternative Title:
  Environ Health Perspect
• Personal Author:
  Needham, Larry L.
• Description:
  For epidemiologic studies that evaluate the relation between potential exposures to environmental chemicals and adverse outcomes, accurate assessments of exposures and health outcomes are needed. Three prospective cohort studies recently evaluated the relation between exposure, as assessed by biomonitoring, of pregnant women to organophosphorus pesticides and several birth outcomes. Here these three studies are compared in terms of the exposure scenarios and exposure assessments. The primary focus is on the exposure assessments, all of which employ biomonitoring but use different approaches, which may contribute to the different findings. These approaches and how they may contribute to different relations between exposure and birth outcomes are examined.
• Subjects:
  Chlorpyrifos Cohort Studies Environmental Monitoring Epidemiological Monitoring Female Humans Insecticides Maternal Exposure Pregnancy Pregnancy Outcome
• Source:
  Environ Health Perspect. 113(4):494-498.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; New York City, NY
• Volume:
  113
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:37cf294095e1f81b9e921b739b45744c125d3deefc1ed950f8005314dc03770c159d20e5840eb37da26d22038b342ed4932998ae26524c93da3f92ac4d479437
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/3859/cdc_3859_DS1.pdf
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