| Literature DB >> 1428486 |
F L Williams1, A B Lawson, O L Lloyd.
Abstract
Previous research in environmental and occupational health has suggested that fluctuations in the sex ratios of births might provide a useful early warning to the possible health effects of toxins or other stresses in the environment. To examine further this hypothesis, we investigated the sex ratios of births in an area in central Scotland which contained two incineration plants. Analyses of the sex ratios, at various levels of geographical detail and using 3-dimensional mapping techniques, in the residential areas at risk from airborne pollution from these incinerators showed locations with statistically significant excesses of female births.Keywords: Age Factors; Biology; Birth Records; Child; Child, Female; Comparative Studies; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Environment; Environmental Degradation; Environmental Pollution; Europe; Examinations And Diagnoses; Genetics; Genitalia; Geographic Factors; Geography; Germ Cells; Human Geography; Maps; Methodological Studies; Northern Europe; Physiology; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Statistics; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Scotland; Screening; Sex Distribution; Sex Factors; Sex Ratio; Social Sciences; Spermatogenesis; Spermatozoa; Studies; Technology; United Kingdom; Urogenital System; Vital Statistics; Youth
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1428486 DOI： 10.1093/ije/21.2.311
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Epidemiol ISSN： 0300-5771 Impact factor: 7.196