Prenatal PCB Exposure and Cognitive Development

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-7-3-5

Prenatal PCB Exposure and Cognitive Development

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 7 (1993): Issue 3

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Mar 1993

Abstract

IQ scores of 118 Taiwanese children who had been exposed prenatally to high levels of heat-degraded polychlorinated phenyls (PCBs) in contaminated rice oil and compared with controls are reported from the National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

References

Chen YC Guo YL Hsu CC Rogan WJ Cognitive development of Yu-Cheng (“oil disease”) children prenatally exposed to heat-degraded PCBs JAMA 1992 Dec 9 268 22 3213 8 1433761 10.1001/jama.268.22.3213
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Jacobson JL Jacobson SW Humphrey HE Effects of in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and related contaminants on cognitive functioning in young children J Pediatr 1990 Jan 116 1 38 45 2104928 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)81642-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-7-3-5 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 19 - 20

Published on: Mar 1, 1993

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Polychlorinated Phenyls,

Taiwanese Children,

Maternal Exposure

© 1993 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 7 (1993): Issue 3