| Document ID (ISN) | 52998 |
| CIS number |
89-2015 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0007-1072 - British Journal of Industrial Medicine |
| Year |
1988 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
McDonald A.D., McDonald J.C., Armstrong B., Cherry N., Nolin A.D., Robert D. |
| Title |
Work with visual display units in pregnancy |
| Bibliographic information |
Aug. 1988, Vol.45, No.8, p.509-515. 25 ref. |
| Abstract |
Data from the Montreal survey on occupational factors in pregnancy were used to test the hypothesis that visual display units constitute a hazard to reproduction. Use of VDUs was recorded in 4,712 current and 2,164 previous pregnancies of women in full time employment at the time of conception. After allowance for seven confounding variables, the risk of spontaneous abortion in current pregnancies relative to all working women was 1.19 and in previous pregnancies, 0.97. In an analysis by occupational title, in which 60 occupational groups were aggregated into eight categories according to use of VDUs, the relative risk for spontaneous abortion was 1.06 in current pregnancies and 1.01 in previous pregnancies. This suggests that the small excess of spontaneous abortions among women reporting the use of VDUs in current pregnancies may have been due to recall bias. Relative risks for stillbirth, preterm birth, and low birth weight all had 90% confidence limits. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupation disease relation; visual display terminals; expectant mothers; exposure evaluation; complications of pregnancy |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
non-ionizing radiation; radiofrequency radiation; women; occupational health survey; evaluation of results; abortion |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Lighting, colour and vision
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Physical hazards
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Office work
Visual display terminals (VDTs)
Exposure evaluation
Diseases of the reproductive system
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