Reproductive outcomes following environmental exposure to DDT |
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Authors: | Cocco Pierluigi Fadda Domenica Melis Massimo |
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Affiliation: | Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari, Italy. coccop@pacs.unica.it |
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Abstract: | We used official statistics of births and stillbirths in 1945-1954 to evaluate reproductive outcomes in the general population following use of DDT during a 1946-1950 anti-malarial campaign in the Italian region of Sardinia. Due to the disruption of registration systems in the World War II years, data in the pre-DDT years were available only for 1945-1946. Such a short period of observation, and social conditions in the war and post-war years, do not allow exclusion of adverse effects of DDT on birth rate; however, we did not observe an effect. The stillbirth rate, infant mortality rate, and male/female ratio in newborns were apparently unaffected following widespread but focused use of DDT in Sardinia, Italy. |
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