Background In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), pesticides are widely used in
agricultural and residential settings. Little is known about how pesticides affect child growth …

Although Spain does not have a regular national human biomonitoring program yet, different
research groups are active in evaluating the exposure of children and adults to chemicals. In …

Background: Guidance is lacking for how to combine urinary biomarker data across studies
that use different measures of urinary dilution, that is, creatinine or specific gravity. Methods …

Several studies have examined the association between prenatal exposure to
organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides and their impact on foetal growth and newborn …

Background Evidence indicated the possibility of non-persistent pesticides disrupting the
homeostasis of sex hormones. However, few studies have focused on this relationship in …

Abstract Widespread exposure to herbicide 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) could
have potential adverse health effects on pregnant women. However, related data are scarce …

The aims of this study were to characterize the exposure of pregnant women living in
Portugal to 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA) and to evaluate the association of this exposure …

Abstract Background Exposure to 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D), a widely used
hormonal herbicide, may disrupt steroid hormone homeostasis. However, evidence from …

Ethion is a class II moderately toxic organothiophosphate pesticide. The main objective of
this study was to evaluate the maternal and foetal toxicity of ethion in rats. Pregnant rats …

Mosquito coils are efficient mosquito repellents and mosquito coil smoke (MCS) contributes
to indoor air pollution. However, no prior population-based study has investigated whether …