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To investigate potential associations between maternal occupational exposures during pregnancy and specific congenital malformations in offspring using registry-based surveillance data.

April 1, 1997Occupational and Environmental MedicineOpen Access

Congenital malformations and maternal occupation: a registry based case-control study.

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To investigate potential associations between maternal occupational exposures during pregnancy and specific congenital malformations in offspring using registry-based surveillance data.
Conducted a case-control study utilizing data from the Florence Eurocat registry surveillance programme covering births registered between 1980 and 1991.
Analyzed 1,351 cases with isolated conditions including chromosomal anomalies, 440 cases with multiple anomalies, and 3,223 unaffected control infants born between 1982 and 1989 across four maternal occupational categories.
Calculated odds ratios adjusted for maternal origin, maternal and paternal education, parity, gestational illness, and maternal age for chromosomal anomalies.
Maternal employment in leather and shoe manufacturing was significantly associated with oral clefts (adjusted OR 3.9; 99% CI 1.5 to 9.8), with risk increasing specifically for isolated cleft palate (OR 5.4; 95% CI 1.8 to 13.4).
Maternal work in textile dyeing was significantly associated with multiple congenital anomalies (adjusted OR 1.9; 99% CI 1.0 to 3.8).

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Case-control study reveals elevated risks of oral clefts and multiple anomalies in infants born to leather and textile workers, highlighting potential occupational teratogenic hazards.

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Bianchi et al. (1997) studied this question.

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Case-control study reveals elevated risks of oral clefts and multiple anomalies in infants born to leather and textile workers, highlighting potential occupational teratogenic hazards.

Congenital malformations and maternal occupation: a registry based case-control study.

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