Reproductive outcomes in an area adjacent to a petrochemical plant in southern Brazil

• Main Authors: Lenice Minussi Oliveira (Author), Nina Stein (Author), Maria Teresa Vieira Sanseverino (Author), Vera Maria Ferrão Vargas (Author), Jandyra Maria Guimarães Fachel (Author), Lavínia Schüler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate possible adverse reproductive outcomes in an area adjacent to a petrochemical plant in southern Brazil. METHODS: A review of 17,113 birth records of the main hospital of the municipality of Montenegro, southern Brazil, from 1983 to 1998 was carried out. Three groups of cases w...