Rylander L, Hagmar L
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
Scand J Work Environ Health. 2000 Jun;26(3):207-12. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.533.
The present study aimed to investigate whether boys who had been pre- and postnatally exposed to persistent organochlorine compounds through the consumption of contaminated fatty fish from the Baltic Sea (on the east coast of Sweden) had medical or psychometric impairments in the compulsory conscript examination at 18 years of age.
Boys born in 1973 to 1975 to fishermen's wives and fishermen's sisters from the Swedish east coast were examined at 18 years of age. For relevant comparisons a corresponding group from the Swedish west coast, where the fish are less contaminated, were used. In addition, comparisons were made with expected values based on conscript examination data for the general population in the same geographic areas.
The boys in the 2 cohorts did not, during the conscript testing, significantly differ in the results of the psychometric tests. On the other hand, the boys from the eastcoast cohort were somewhat shorter and had more visual and hearing impairments than the boys from the west coast. However, the eastcoast boys did not differ from the regional reference population with respect to visual and hearing ability.
Although no individual exposure data were available, the present results do not support any harmful long-term impact of pre- and postnatal exposure to persistent organochlorine compounds from mothers' fish consumption on the psychometric functions of boys in their conscript examinations.
本研究旨在调查那些在产前和产后通过食用来自波罗的海（瑞典东海岸）受污染的肥鱼而接触持久性有机氯化合物的男孩，在18岁义务征兵体检中是否存在医学或心理测量方面的损伤。
对1973年至1975年出生于瑞典东海岸渔民妻子和渔民姐妹家庭的男孩在18岁时进行检查。为了进行相关比较，使用了来自瑞典西海岸的相应群体，那里的鱼污染程度较低。此外，还根据同一地理区域普通人群的征兵体检数据与预期值进行了比较。
在征兵测试期间，这两个队列中的男孩在心理测量测试结果上没有显著差异。另一方面，东海岸队列的男孩比西海岸的男孩略矮，并且有更多的视力和听力损伤。然而，东海岸男孩在视力和听力能力方面与区域参考人群没有差异。
尽管没有个体暴露数据，但目前的结果不支持产前和产后通过母亲食用鱼类接触持久性有机氯化合物对男孩征兵体检中的心理测量功能有任何有害的长期影响。
