| Document ID (ISN) | 110043 |
| CIS number |
09-1045 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0340-0131 - International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health |
| Year |
2009 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Jakobsson K., Mikoczy Z. |
| Title |
Reproductive outcome in a cohort of male and female rubber workers: A registry study |
| Bibliographic information |
Jan. 2009, Vol.82, No.2, p.165-174. 43 ref. |
| Abstract |
The objective of this study was to investigate whether employment in the Swedish rubber industry from 1973 onwards had a negative impact on reproductive health. Pairs of mother and child, and triads of father-mother-child were obtained through linkage of a cohort of 18,518 rubber factory employees with the Swedish Population Registry. Birth outcomes were obtained from the Medical Birth Register for 17,918 children. For each child, parental employment as blue-collar rubber worker during the pregnancy and sperm maturation period was obtained from work-place records. Children to female food industry workers, in all 33,256, constituted an external reference group. Working in the rubber industry was found to have a statistically significant effect on the sex ratio, the risk of multiple births, birth weight and weight for gestational age. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
antifertility effects; parental exposure; Sweden; rubber industry |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
spermatogenic disturbances; blue-collar workers; expectant mothers; cohort study |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Sweden |
| Subject(s) |
Chemicals, plastics and rubber
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Industries and occupations
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Rubber industry
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures
Antifertility and prenatal effects
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