Pesticide appliers, biocides, and birth defects in rural Minnesota.

Pesticide appliers, biocides, and birth defects in rural Minnesota.

Earlier studies by our group suggested the possibility that offspring of pesticide appliers might have increased risks of birth anomalies. To evaluate this hypothesis, 935 births to 34,772 state-licensed, private pesticide appliers in Minnesota occurring between 1989 and 1992 were linked to the Minnesota state birth registry containing 210,723 live births in this timeframe. The birth defect rat...

Examining the evidence on pesticide exposure & birth defects in farmworkers:

Pesticide appliers with mixed pesticide exposure: G-banded analysis and possible relationship to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

To further investigate the possible relationships between agricultural pesticide exposure and the increased risk of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma among farm workers in the north central United States, we performed G-banded chromosome analyses of peripheral blood from workers classified according to primary types of pesticide exposure: herbicides (n = 20), insecticides (n = 18), fumigants (n = 23), and...

Pesticide Appliers with Mixed Pesticide Exposure: G-banded Analysis and Possible Relationship to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma1

To further investigate the possible relationships between agricultural pesticide exposure and the increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma among farm workers in the north central United States, we performed G-banded chromosome analyses of peripheral blood from workers classified according to primary types of pesticide exposure: herbicides (n 20), insecticides (n 18), fumigants (n = 23), and occ...

A preliminary statistical study of whether pesticide use could be related to birth defects in a rural area of Venezuela.

OBJECTIVES This study was carried out in response to health authorities' concerns regarding what they considered to be a "high proportion" of birth defects (BD) in a rural Venezuelan state as the preliminary step towards subsequent health assessment regarding exposure to pesticides and possible association with registered BD. METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Generalised l...