low-dose pollutants amid: Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders - obesity

[Guest guest]

Given the new findings in " Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for

Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders " , the recently published

study by Rauch et al takes on added significance, because ordinary

exposures were found to have induced adverse effects. I've added

highlights which makes the point so well.

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Dangers posed by pesticides during pregnancy.

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/pesticides-pregnancy-babies-health_n_1\

406468.html>

*/And this is not research about babies born to moms who spray chemicals

on crops or who work for Orkin, either/*.

" This is not an unusual group, " said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, about the women

who were studied. " */These are women exposed primarily through diet and

perhaps pesticides used in and around the yard/*, " said Lanphear, a

researcher on the

study of organophosphate pesticide exposure published Thursday

<http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F\

10.1289%2Fehp.1104615>

in /Environmental Health Perspectives/....

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Associations of Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticide

Metabolites with Gestational Age and Birthweight.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22476135>

Rauch SA, Braun JM, Barr DB, Calafat AM, Khoury J, Montesano MA, Yolton

K, Lanphear BP.

Environ Health Perspect. 2012 Apr 5.

see also:

Paraoxonase gene variants are associated with autism in North America,

but not in Italy: possible regional specificity in gene-environment

interactions. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16027737>

D'Amelio M, Ricci I, Sacco R, Liu X, et al.

Mol Psychiatry. 2005 Nov;10(11):1006-16.

Low dose organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls predict

obesity, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance among people free of

diabetes. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21298090> Lee DH, Steffes

MW, Sjödin A, RS, Needham LL, s DR Jr.

PLoS One. 2011 Jan 26;6(1):e15977.

*/Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for Autism and Other

Neurodevelopmental Disorders/ *

* a Krakowiak, et al

Pediatrics peds.2011-2583; published ahead of print April 9, 2012,

doi:10.1542/peds.2011-2583

* Abstract

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bstract?sid=857c12f8-cd6d-4898-a87f-610dcf50996e>

* Full Text (PDF)

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