Exposure to a Mixture of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans Resulted in a Prolonged Time to Pregnancy in Women | Zendy

ChiuYueh Yang | Zendy; Ying-Jan Wang | Zendy; PauChung Chen | Zendy; ShawJenq Tsai | Zendy; Yue Leon Guo | Zendy

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Exposure to a Mixture of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans Resulted in a Prolonged Time to Pregnancy in Women

Author(s) -

ChiuYueh Yang,

Ying-Jan Wang,

PauChung Chen,

ShawJenq Tsai,

Yue Leon Guo

Publication year - 2008

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.10715

Subject(s) - medicine , proportional hazards model , fertility , confounding , odds ratio , pregnancy , confidence interval , logistic regression , gynecology , polychlorinated dibenzofurans , demography , obstetrics , population , environmental health , biology , sociology , genetics , pathology

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) may affect the female reproductive system in animals and humans. In 1978-1979, a mass poisoning occurred in central Taiwan due to PCB/PCDF-contaminated cooking oil; this incident was called Yucheng ("oil disease" in Chinese).

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