Congenital anomalies among the offspring of fire fighters.
Am J Ind Med
; 30(1): 83-6, 1996 Jul.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8837688
ABSTRACT
A case-control study has been conducted to determine the association between employment as a fire fighter and congenital heart defects among the offspring. Cases were fathers of all children born between 1979 and 1986 in Ontario, Canada, who were diagnosed with a cardiac congenital anomaly during the first year of life (n = 9340). Matched controls (n = 9340), defined as fathers whose child did not have a congenital anomaly, were randomly selected from the Ontario birth certificate file. In order to identify those fathers who had been employed as a fire fighter, the cases and controls were linked to a cohort of Metropolitan Toronto fire fighters. Eleven cases and nine controls worked as fire fighters, giving an odds ratio of 1.22 (95 percent confidence interval 0.46-3.33). This study had sufficient power to detect the level of risk reported in one previous study; however, these results do not support a hypothesis of elevated risk of cardiac congenital anomalies among the offspring of fire fighters.
Buscar no Google
Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pai
/
Incêndios
/
Cardiopatias Congênitas
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
/
Incidence_studies
/
Observational_studies
/
Prognostic_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
/
Humans
/
Infant
/
Male
/
Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Ind Med
Ano de publicação:
1996
Tipo de documento:
Article