RT Journal
A1 Zobel LR, Olsen GW, Butenhoff JL
T1 PErfluorinated compounds and immunotoxicity in children
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD May 9
VO 307
IS 18
SP 1910
OP 1911
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.3599
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3599
AB 
A Danish study examined whether perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) may impair children's immune systems.2 Fei et al2 randomly selected 1400 pregnant women from 91 827 persons in the Danish National Birth Cohort between 1996 and 2002 and investigated their offspring's history of hospitalizations for infectious diseases through 2008 (n = 363 children). Prenatal serum concentrations of PFOS and PFOA, similar to the values in the study by Grandjean et al,1 were not associated with hospitalizations for infectious diseases. Fei et al2 concluded that their data did not support the hypothesis that prenatal PFOS and PFOA exposures decrease resistance to childhood infections.