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A study of waiting time to pregnancy and miscarriage - Risks of reproductive unhealth among rubber workers: women who worked in rubber industry

SND-ID: ext0070-1.

Is part of collection at SND: Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Anna Axmon - Lund University, Laboratory Medicine

Research principal

Region Skåne - Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Description

The study is based on cohorts of women who worked in the rubber industry or were married to men who worked in the rubber industry, as well as women who were members of the Food Workers' Union (controls). All of the women were born in 1960 or later, which was a requirement for enrollment in the study. Telephone interviews were conducted with 174 women who worked in the rubber industry, 379 wives of men who worked in the rubber industry and 403 women who worked in the food industry. In the interviews, data were collected regarding waiting time to pregnancy (time to pregnancy; TTP), pregnancy outcomes for the womens all pregnancies. Further questions were asked about lifestyle factors (eg smoking), workplace exposures, and various ergonomic loads before and during pregnancies.

Purpose:

To investigate if working in Swedish rubber industry adversely affect time-to-pregnancy and increases the risk of miscarriage

Data contains personal data

Yes

Sensitive personal data

Yes

Code key exists

Yes

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Time Method

Time period(s) investigated

2006 – 2008

Number of individuals/objects

174

Response rate/participation rate

19%

Data format / data structure

Data collection
  • Mode of collection: Telephone interview
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2006 – 2008
  • Source of the data: Population group
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Sweden

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Topic and keywords

Research area

Medical and health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Occupational health and environmental health (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Health (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Reproduction (biological), Cohort studies, Occupational exposure, Fertility (human), Pregnancy complications, Miscarriage, Scania, Epihealth, Epihealth_skåne, Rubber industry, Telephone interview

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