Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children

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Authors

Maryse F. Bouchard · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine

Jonathan Chevrier · Center for Environmental Health

Kim G. Harley · Center for Environmental Health

Katherine Kogut · Center for Environmental Health

Michelle Vedar · Center for Environmental Health

Norma Calderon · Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas

Celina Trujillo

Abstract

Prenatal but not postnatal urinary DAP concentrations were associated with poorer intellectual development in 7-year-old children. Maternal urinary DAP concentrations in the present study were higher but nonetheless within the range of levels measured in the general U.S. population.

Topics & Keywords

Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Environmental Health Perspectives

Volume 119, Issue 8, pp. 1189-1195

DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003185

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