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Risk of Birth Defects in Australian Communities with High Levels of Brominated Disinfection By-products

Author(s) -

Kimberley Chisholm,

Angus Cook,

Carol Bower,

Philip Weinstein

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.10980

Subject(s) - confidence interval , odds ratio , trihalomethane , toxicology , environmental health , medicine , logistic regression , demography , environmental science , biology , environmental engineering , water treatment , sociology

By international standards, water supplies in Perth, Western Australia, contain high trihalomethane (THM) levels, particularly the brominated forms. Geographic variability in these levels provided an opportunity to examine cross-city spatial relationships between THM exposure and rates of birth defects (BDs).

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