Low birth weight of Vietnamese infants is related to their mother’s dioxin and glucocorticoid levels

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 23; no. 11; pp. 10922 - 10929
• Main Authors: Van Tung, Dao, Kido, Teruhiko, Honma, Seijiro, Manh, Ho Dung, Nhu, Dang Duc, Okamoto, Rie, Maruzeni, Shoko, Nishijo, Muneko, Nakagawa, Hideaki, Ngoc, Pham Thien, Van Toan, Ngo, Hung, Nguyen Ngoc, Minh, Nguyen Hung, Son, Le Ke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Agent Orange; Agricultural production; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Birth weight; Breast milk; Breastfeeding & lactation; Dioxins; Dioxins - metabolism; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Female; Glucocorticoids - metabolism; Health sciences; Herbicides; Herbicides - pharmacology; Humans; Immune system; Infant; Infant, Low Birth Weight; Infants; low birth weight; Maternal Exposure; Milk, Human - metabolism; Mothers; neonates; Newborn babies; PCB; Pharmacy; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins; Research Article; Saliva - metabolism; soil; Soil Pollutants; Studies; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Toxicity; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Vietnamese people; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Womens health; Vietnam; ISEW, Vietnam; Growth parameter; Vietnam; Dioxin hotspot; Glucocorticoid; Low birth weight; Dioxin congener

We aimed to determine the relationship between dioxin congeners in maternal breast milk and maternal glucocorticoid levels with newborn birth weight after nearly 45 years of use of herbicides in the Vietnam War. The study subjects comprised 58 mother–infant pairs in a region with high dioxin levels...