PT Journal AU Blomqvist, U Ericson, A Källén, B Westerholm, P TI Delivery outcome for women working in the pulp and paper industry. SO Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health PD 6VL PY 1981 BP 114 EP 118 IS 2 DI 10.5271/sjweh.2558 WP https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=2558 DE delivery outcome; laboratory work; malformation; paper industry; perinatal death; pulp; woman; working SN 0355-3140 AB

A report on unusually many 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 broken up 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, seem to support the notion that work in laboratories represents a pregnancy hazard.

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