Paternal and joint parental occupational pesticide exposure and spina bifida in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997 to 2002.
Stacy M PettigrewErin M BellAlissa R Van ZutphenCarissa M RocheleauGary M ShawPaul A RomittiAndrew OlshanPhilip J LupoAida SoimJennifer A MakelarskiAdrian M MichalskiWayne Sandersonnull nullPublished in: Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology (2017)
Overall, there was little evidence paternal occupational pesticide exposure was associated with spina bifida. However, the small numbers make it difficult to precisely evaluate the role of pesticide classes, individually and in combination. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 106:963-971, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.