title: Pregnancy outcome for women working in laboratories in some of the pharmaceutical industries in Sweden.
abstract: The pregnancy outcome of laboratory employees in three pharmaceutical in Sweden studied with interviews, postal questionnaires, and register studies. The total material shows only a slightly increased miscarriage rate and normal perinatal mortality and malformation rates. Subdivision into two types of laboratory work, "chemical" and "other," revealed a significant difference, with an increased perinatal death rate and an increased rate of major malformations in the chemical group. This observation supports earlier findings indicating that work during pregnancy in a chemical laboratory can represent a hazard to the fetus.
mesh_terms: D000014:Abnormalities, Drug-Induced; D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000139:chemically induced; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004345:Drug Industry; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007753:Laboratories; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D013548:Sweden