TY  - JOUR
T1  - PErfluorinated compounds and immunotoxicity in children
AU  - Zobel LR, Olsen GW, Butenhoff JL
Y1  - 2012/05/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.3599
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1910
EP  - 1911
VL  - 307
IS  - 18
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.3599
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3599
ER  -