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pubmed:abstractText |
We measured 34 metabolites of current-use pesticides and other precursor compounds in urine samples collected twice during pregnancy from 538 women living in the Salinas Valley of California, a highly agricultural area (1999-2001). Precursors of these metabolites included fungicides, carbamate, organochlorine, organophosphorus (OP), and pyrethroid insecticides, and triazine and chloroacetanilide herbicides. We also measured ethylenethiourea, a metabolite of the ethylene-bisdithiocarbamate fungicides. Repeat measurements of the compounds presented here have not been reported in pregnant women previously. To understand the impact of the women's regional environment on these findings, we compared metabolite concentrations from the CHAMACOS (Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas) cohort with U.S. national reference data for 342 pregnant women sampled by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2002).
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pubmed:affiliation |
Center for Children's Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94704 , USA. rcastori@berkeley.edu
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Comparative Study,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.,
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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