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Author: Mitchell, Peter
Subjects: *ORGANIC solvents, *PREGNANT women, *HUMAN abnormality etiology, *PREGNANCY, *HEALTH risk assessment, *PHYSIOLOGY
Abstract: Reports that women occupationally exposed to organic solvents during pregnancy are 13 times more likely to give birth to a child with serious congenital malformations. Risk only applying to those women who develop symptoms of solvent exposure; Assertion that hydrocarbon solvents are teratogenic in humans; Research by Sohail Khattak et al, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario; Methods; Other effects of solvent exposure. INSET: Some weedkillers and pesticides linked to..., by Kelly Morris.
Published: 1999
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Author: Seppa, N.
Subjects: *ORGANIC solvents, *PREGNANCY, *PREGNANT women, *HEALTH risk assessment, *DRUG side effects, HOSPITAL for Sick Children (Toronto, Ont.)
Abstract: Reports on research findings from Motherisk, a program through the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, involving pregnant women exposed to organic solvents during pregnancy. Full report in the March 23-31, 1999 `Journal of the American Medical Association'; What the solvents include; Findings that exposed women are more likely to have a deformed baby than unexposed women; Results of research; Study coauthor Sohail Khattak.
Published: 1999
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