PMID- 21971379
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120910
LR  - 20161125
IS  - 1559-064X (Electronic)
IS  - 1559-0631 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
DP  - 2012 Jan-Feb
TI  - Persistent organic pollutant concentrations in first birth mothers across Mexico.
PG  - 60-9
LID - 10.1038/jes.2011.31 [doi]
AB  - This project was initiated by the North America Commission for Environmental 
      Cooperation (CEC). Its main purpose was to obtain an initial profile on pregnant 
      woman's exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in North America 
      (Canada, the United States and Mexico). Persistent organic pollutants are 
      transferred to the fetus via the placenta during the pregnancy or to the infant 
      via maternal milk; therefore, the pregnant woman's body burden is important 
      because of the higher exposures and potential health effects in the fetus and 
      infant. This paper presents the results from 240 pregnant women in 10 Mexican 
      cities, and includes the concentrations of various POPs such as polychlorinated 
      biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins 
      and furans (PCDDs and PCDFs) in maternal plasma. We found concentrations of 
      p,p'-DDE in maternal samples from Coatzacoalcos to be  approximately 60% higher than those 
      found in Ciudad Obregon, which had the second highest concentration. Pregnant 
      women from Merida had higher mean concentrations of PCBs than all women in other 
      regions. Results for PCDDs and PCDFs plus dioxin-like PCBs data were only 
      available on the basis of composite samples, and their concentrations are similar 
      in most cities except for Coatzacoalcos, which had more than double the 
      concentration found in other cities. Although this study provides useful 
      information on the variability of POPs in specific populations and possible 
      regional/local differences, these results cannot be generalized to the entire 
      Mexican population because of differences in age, gender, sources of exposure and 
      nonrandom nature of the sample.
FAU - Rodriguez-Dozal, Sandra
AU  - Rodriguez-Dozal S
AD  - Environmental Health Department, Center for Population Heath Research, National 
      Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
FAU - Riojas Rodriguez, Horacio
AU  - Riojas Rodriguez H
FAU - Hernandez-Avila, Mauricio
AU  - Hernandez-Avila M
FAU - Van Oostdam, Jay
AU  - Van Oostdam J
FAU - Weber, Jean Philippe
AU  - Weber JP
FAU - Needham, Larry L
AU  - Needham LL
FAU - Trip, Luke
AU  - Trip L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20111005
PL  - United States
TA  - J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
JT  - Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
JID - 101262796
RN  - 0 (Benzofurans)
RN  - 0 (Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Benzofurans/*blood
MH  - Body Burden
MH  - Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*blood
MH  - Female
MH  - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*blood
MH  - Maternal Exposure/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Mexico
MH  - Pesticides/*blood
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/blood
MH  - Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/*analogs & derivatives/blood
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2011/10/06 06:00
MHDA- 2012/09/11 06:00
CRDT- 2011/10/06 06:00
PHST- 2011/10/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/10/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/11 06:00 [medline]
AID - jes201131 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/jes.2011.31 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 Jan-Feb;22(1):60-9. doi: 10.1038/jes.2011.31. 
      Epub 2011 Oct 5.