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Maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications and autism spectrum disorders among children in the California Central Valley.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Ambient levels of pesticides ("pesticide drift") are detectable at residences near agricultural field sites. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to evaluate the hypothesis that maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications during key periods of gestation could be associated with the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children. METHODS:We identified 465 children with ASD born during 1996-1998 using the California Department of Developmental Services electronic files, and matched them by maternal date of last menstrual period to 6,975 live-born, normal-birth-weight, term infants as controls. We determined proximity to pesticide applications using California Department of Pesticide Regulation records refined using Department of Water Resources land use polygons. A staged analytic design applying a priori criteria to the results of conditional logistic regressions was employed to exclude associations likely due to multiple testing error. RESULTS:Of 249 unique hypotheses, four that described organochlorine pesticide applications--specifically those of dicofol and endosulfan--occurring during the period immediately before and concurrent with central nervous system embryogenesis (clinical weeks 1 through 8) met a priori criteria and were unlikely to be a result of multiple testing. Multivariate a posteriori models comparing children of mothers living within 500 m of field sites with the highest nonzero quartile of organochlorine poundage to those with mothers not living near field sites suggested an odds ratio for ASD of 6.1 (95% confidence interval, 2.4-15.3). ASD risk increased with the poundage of organochlorine applied and decreased with distance from field sites. CONCLUSIONS:The association between residential proximity to organochlorine pesticide applications during gestation and ASD among children should be further studied.

journal_name

Environ Health Perspect

journal_title

Environmental health perspectives

authors

Roberts EM,English PB,Grether JK,Windham GC,Somberg L,Wolff C

doi

10.1289/ehp.10168

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-10-01 00:00:00

pages

1482-9

issue

eissn

0091-6765

issn

1552-9924

journal_volume

115

pub_type

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Maternal residence near agricultural pesticide applications and autism spectrum disorders among children in the California Central Valley.