SEX RATIOS OF BIRTHS, MORTALITY, AND AIR POLLUTION

[ OSH-Link Home | IVI Online | Comments ]

ENVIRONMENTAL-POLLUTION

SEX RATIOS OF BIRTHS, MORTALITY, AND AIR POLLUTION: CAN MEASURING THE SEX RATIOS OF BIRTHS HELP TO IDENTIFY HEALTH HAZARDS FROM AIR POLLUTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS?

The theory that the sex ratio of births would be changed where parents had been exposed to air pollution and that the mortality from lung cancer or From all causes of death would be higher in these same exposed populations was examined. The authors suggest that the monitoring of the sex ratio did not provide a reliable screening measure for detecting cryptic health hazards from industrial air pollution in the general residential environment.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 52(3):164-169, 1995. (23 references)

The paragraph above is a short summary of a larger, in-depth abstract taken from OSH-DB, the world's most comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health database. OSH-DB contains abstracts of over 230,000 articles, books, NIOSH bulletins, and other publications from the 1890s to the present day. For more information, go to the OSH-Link Home Page.

You can do a search of the OSH-DB database and get a list of articles on any topic of interest on our Visitor Search Page. Access to read the articles is limited to OSH-DB subscribers.

Copyright (c) 1994-2008, Information Ventures, Inc.
Mail us at: Customer-Service@infoventures.com
http://infoventures.com/osh/