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The aim of our study was to assess whether high nitrate levels in drinking water, consumed during pregnancy, increased the risk of low birth weight. The population-based case-control study was comprised of all low birth weight newborns, registered in 1996 in rural districts. Controls were randomly selected from the total birth cohort (1,057). We interviewed women in person about their sociodemographic characteristics, habits, reproductive and medical history. Total nitrate concentration in drinking water was used as an index of mother’s exposure to nitrate. We compared low birth weight newborns (41 cases) with normal weight newborns (435 controls) and employed multivariate logistic regression to adjust for potential variable effects of the selected low birth weight risk factors.
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Jakucionyte, L., Grazuleviciene, R., Rutkoviene, V. (2001). Drinking Water Contamination by Nitrate and Low Birth Weight Risk in Rural Population. In: Linkov, I., Palma-Oliveira, J. (eds) Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks. NATO Science Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0987-4_37
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