TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of iowa live births in the agricultural health study
AU - Romitti, Paul A.
AU - Watanabe-Galloway, Shinobu
AU - Budelier, William T.
AU - Lynch, Charles F.
AU - Puzhankara, Soman
AU - Wong-Gibbons, Donna
AU - Hoppin, Jane A.
AU - Alavanja, Michael C.R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The grant sponsors for this study are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U50/CCU 713238, U01DD000492) and The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (18018259). The Agricultural Health Study was funded by the intramural research programs of the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In the Agricultural Health Study, information on participant live births was largely provided by female partners of male private applicators. At the Iowa site, such information was available for 13, 599 (42.9%) of 31, 707 applicators. To improve identification of live births among Iowa participants, we used a probabilistic and deterministic approach to link available demographic data from 31, 707 households and information on live births from 13, 599 households with 1, 014, 916 Iowa birth certificates. Record linkage identified 16, 611 (93.7%) of 17, 719 reported live births and 17, 883 additional live births, most (14, 411 or 80.6%) not reported due to nonresponse by female partners. This record linkage produced an expanded cohort of live-born children among Iowa participants, which will facilitate improved study of the effects of agricultural exposures, including pesticides, on selected birth outcomes and childhood disease.
AB - In the Agricultural Health Study, information on participant live births was largely provided by female partners of male private applicators. At the Iowa site, such information was available for 13, 599 (42.9%) of 31, 707 applicators. To improve identification of live births among Iowa participants, we used a probabilistic and deterministic approach to link available demographic data from 31, 707 households and information on live births from 13, 599 households with 1, 014, 916 Iowa birth certificates. Record linkage identified 16, 611 (93.7%) of 17, 719 reported live births and 17, 883 additional live births, most (14, 411 or 80.6%) not reported due to nonresponse by female partners. This record linkage produced an expanded cohort of live-born children among Iowa participants, which will facilitate improved study of the effects of agricultural exposures, including pesticides, on selected birth outcomes and childhood disease.
KW - Children
KW - Occupational exposures
KW - Pesticides
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Prospective cohort
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U2 - 10.1080/19338241003730903
DO - 10.1080/19338241003730903
M3 - Article
C2 - 20705576
AN - SCOPUS:77956251655
SN - 1933-8244
VL - 65
SP - 154
EP - 162
JO - Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
JF - Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
IS - 3
ER -