Maternal occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and major structural birth defects

ConclusionWe assessed 39 birth defects, observing that maternal occupations with potential exposure to IR were associated with a significantly increased risk for 4 birth defects and a significantly protected risk for 1 birth defect. These results should be interpreted cautiously because our measurement of exposure is qualitative, some of these associations may be due to occupational exposures that are correlated with IR and some may be due to chance. However, these findings serve as the first evaluation of these relationships in a large study and may be useful for generating hypotheses for future studies. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Source: Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology - March 28, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Hyeyeun Lim, A.J. Agopian, Lawrence W. Whitehead, Charles W. Beasley, Peter H. Langlois, Robert J. Emery, Dorothy Kim Waller, Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research