Delivery outcome for women working in the pulp and paper industry.
Open Access
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health in Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
- Vol. 7 (2) , 114-118
- https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.2558
Abstract
A report on an unusually large number of wasted pregnancies among women working at a laboratory in a paper industry gave rise to a cohort study on pregnancy outcome among all women working in the pulp and paper industry in Sweden during 1973-1977. A total of 890 deliveries were identified (899 infants born). The total number of malformed infants or perinatally dead infants was according to expectations. When the material was divided according to occupation, it was found that, in the group of infants whose mothers worked in laboratories during pregnancy, the rate of malformed infants appeared high. These data, added to previously published data, suggest that work in laboratories represents a pregnancy hazard.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Pregnancy outcome for women working in laboratories in some of the pharmaceutical industries in Sweden.Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 1980
- Surveillance of Malformations at Birth: a comparison of two record systems run in parallelInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 1977