Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides and IQ in 7-year-old children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1189-1195

  Bouchard, Maryse F ^a,b   Chevrier, Jonathan ^a   Harley, Kim G ^a   Kogut, Katherine ^a   Vedar, Michelle ^a   Calderon, Norma ^c   Trujillo, Celina ^a   Johnson, Caroline ^a   Bradman, Asa ^a   Barr, Dana Boyd ^d   Eskenazi, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Children; Cognitive development; Farmworker; Insecticides; Intelligence quotient; Neurodevelopment; Organophosphate; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

ALKANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THINKING; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 79959823022     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003185     Document Type: Article

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