Perfluorinated Chemicals and Fetal Growth: A Study within the Danish National Birth Cohort | Zendy

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Perfluorinated Chemicals and Fetal Growth: A Study within the Danish National Birth Cohort

Author(s) -

Chunyuan Fei,

Joseph K. McLaughlin,

Robert E. Tarone,

Jørn Olsen

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.10506

Subject(s) - birth weight , cohort , medicine , gestation , pregnancy , fetus , cohort study , obstetrics , danish , gestational age , confidence interval , low birth weight , physiology , biology , linguistics , philosophy , genetics

Perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) are man-made, persistent organic pollutants widely spread throughout the environment and human populations. They have been found to interfere with fetal growth in some animal models, but whether a similar effect is seen in humans is uncertain.

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