Reproductive outcomes following environmental exposure to DDT
| Autor: | Massimo Melis, Pierluigi Cocco, Domenica Fadda |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Time Factors
media_common.quotation_subject Population Fertility Toxicology DDT Birth rate Pregnancy Infant Mortality parasitic diseases Humans Medicine Sex Ratio Birth Rate education reproductive and urinary physiology media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Pregnancy Outcome Infant Environmental Exposure Environmental exposure Stillbirth medicine.disease humanities Infant mortality Italy Regression Analysis Female business Developed country Malaria Demography |
| Zdroj: | Reproductive Toxicology. 22:5-7 |
| ISSN: | 0890-6238 1945-1954 |
| Popis: | We used official statistics of births and stillbirths in 1945-1954 to evaluate reproductive outcomes in the general population following use of DDT during a 1946-1950 anti-malarial campaign in the Italian region of Sardinia. Due to the disruption of registration systems in the World War II years, data in the pre-DDT years were available only for 1945-1946. Such a short period of observation, and social conditions in the war and post-war years, do not allow exclusion of adverse effects of DDT on birth rate; however, we did not observe an effect. The stillbirth rate, infant mortality rate, and male/female ratio in newborns were apparently unaffected following widespread but focused use of DDT in Sardinia, Italy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect