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Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA).

van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Oberg, Mathias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian (Research: Children´s health, 2014-12)

Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale ...

Maternal blood and hair manganese concentrations, fetal growth, and length of gestation in the ISA cohort in Costa Rica

Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015)

Background: Animal studies have shown that both deficiency and excess manganese (Mn) may result in decreased fetal size and weight, but human studies have reported inconsistent results. Methods: We examined the association ...

Blood and hair manganese concentrations in pregnant women from the infants' environmental health study (ISA) in Costa Rica

Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Lindh, Christian H; Bradman, Asa; Eskenazi, Brenda; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Lundh, Thomas (American Chemical Society, 2014-03)

Manganese (Mn), an essential nutrient, is a neurotoxicant at high concentrations. We measured Mn concentrations in repeated blood and hair samples collected from 449 pregnant women living near banana plantations with ...

Manganese concentrations in drinking water from villages near banana plantations with aerial mancozeb spraying in Costa Rica: Results from the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA)

van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Barbeau, Benoit; Bouchard, Maryse; Mora, Ana María; Skytt, Asa; Córdoba, Leonel; Quesada, Rosario; Lundh, Thomas; Lindh, Christian; Mergler, Donna (Elsevier, 2016-03)

Elevated manganese (Mn) in drinking water has been reported worldwide. While, naturally occurring Mn in groundwater is generally the major source, anthropogenic contamination by Mn-containing fungicides such as mancozeb ...

Informe Técnico ISA 04 Colabaoración Programa ISA Y Asistentes Técnicos de Atención Primaria en Salud del Área de Salud de Talamanca: Aprendizaje y estrategias de difusión sobre el uso de plaguicias y la salud humana

Quesada, Rosario; Romero Boniche, Jenny Raquel; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 2014-01)

In the context of the Infants and Environmental Health Program (ISA - www.isa.una.ac.cr) we started working together with the Primary Care Technical Assistants in Health (ATAPS) in the upper Talamanca area, with the ...

Los plaguicidas

Quesada, Rosario; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2011)

El material ha sido diseñado para ser utilizado como medio de difusión en el Programa Infantes y Salud Ambiental. Su contenido se basa en: Los conceptos de plaguicidas también llamados agroquímicos. La clasificación de ...