Occupational pesticide use and Parkinson's disease in the Parkinson Environment Gene (PEG) study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the influence of occupational pesticide use on Parkinson's disease (PD) in a population with information on various occupational, residential, and household sources of pesticide exposure.

Methods

In a population-based case control study in Central California, we used structured interviews to collect occupational history details including pesticide use in jobs, duration of use, product names, and personal protective equipment use from 360 PD cases and 827 controls. We linked reported products to California's pesticide product label database and identified pesticide active ingredients and occupational use by chemical class including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides. Employing unconditional logistic regression, we estimated odds ratios and 95% confide

SUBMITTER: Narayan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629094 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature