Lactational Exposure to Pesticides: A Review

environmental and population studies concerning exposure to pesticides in iran: a comprehensive review

pesticides are widely used in iranian agriculture and this has made a major toxicological concern among health professionals. the objective of this study is to explore national data about pesticides toxicity. all relevant databases such as google scholar, pubmed, and scopus in a time period of 1960 to 2012 were searched for the keywords “pesticides, iran, environment, and population studies”. a...

Occupational Exposure to pesticides and spontaneous abortion among female pistachio farmers: a case-control study

  Introduction: The majoritiy of abortion risk factors has been classified as environmental and vary from one place to another. This study aimed to explore the relationship between exposure to pesticides and spontaneous abortion among female pistachio farmers in Rafsanjan, Iran.   Materials and Methods: In this case-control study, 50 women with spontaneous abortion and 50 women w...

Long-term Developmental Effects of Lactational Exposure to Lead Acetate on Ovary in Offspring Wistar Rats

Biological Markers of Human Exposure to Pesticides

Professional exposure to pesticides and Parkinson disease.

OBJECTIVE We studied the relation between Parkinson disease (PD) and professional exposure to pesticides in a community-based case-control study conducted in a population characterized by a high prevalence of exposure. Our objective was to investigate the role of specific pesticide families and to perform dose-effect analyses. METHODS PD cases (n = 224) from the Mutualité Sociale Agricole (Fr...