title: [Occupational exposure of medical personnel to chemical factors affecting fertility].
abstract: Exposure to factors present in the working environment may exert an adverse effect on both those directly and on their progeny. Together with large populations exposed to harmful factors in different branches of industry (chemical, metallurgical, textile etc.), health service workers should be also taken into account as another significant group exposed. Factors affecting fertility, health service workers are mostly exposed to, are as follows: cytostatic drugs, chemicals used in sterilization, gases for general anaesthesia and enormous number of factors the health service workers are in contact with in laboratories. The authors reviewed the world literature and presented kinds of harmful factors and their effect on fertility in persons employed in health services and exposed to them.
authors.affiliation: Pracowni Oceny Toksyczności Instytutu Medycyny Pracy, Lodzi.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sitarek
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berlińska
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000187:drug effects*; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000139:chemically induced*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D018570:Risk Assessment
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances