Residential proximity to agricultural fumigant use and IQ, attention and hyperactivity in 7-year old children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our objective was to examine the relationship between residential proximity to agricultural fumigant use and neurodevelopment in 7-year old children.

Methods

Participants were living in the agricultural Salinas Valley, California and enrolled in the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children Of Salinas (CHAMACOS) study. We administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (4th Edition) to assess cognition and the Behavioral Assessment System for Children (2nd Edition) to assess behavior. We estimated agricultural fumigant use within 3, 5 and 8km of residences during pregnancy and from birth to age 7 using California's Pesticide Use Report data. We evaluated the association between prenatal (n = 285) and postnatal (n = 255) residential proximi

SUBMITTER: Gunier RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557382 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature