Can the birth certificate yield clues to parental occupational exposures?
An analysis of reported birth record variables by parental occupation suggests that certain birth outcomes may identify toxic or carcinogenic occupational exposures of the parents. Fathers coded to an asbestos and insulation worker rubric sired fewer plural births, and more stillbirths than expected. A number of other fathers' occupations with putative exposure to asbestos and increased lung cancer mortality also showed a deficit of plural births.
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Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Olympia 98504-0095.
D000328:Adult; D001719:Birth Certificates; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D009790:Occupations; D010290:Parents