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Can the birth certificate yield clues to parental occupational exposures?
Author(s) -
Milham Samuel
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700160214
Subject(s) - medicine , asbestos , birth certificate , occupational exposure , environmental health , mesothelioma , death certificate , lung cancer , demography , population , pathology , cause of death , materials science , disease , sociology , metallurgy
An analysis of reported birth record variables by parental occupation suggests that certain birth outcomes may identify toxic or carcinogenic occupational exposures of the parents. Fathers coded to an asbestos and insulation worker rubric sired fewer plural births, and more stillbirths than expected. A number of other fathers' occupations with putative exposure to asbestos and increased lung cancer mortality also showed a deficit of plural births.