Occupational Pesticide Exposure and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adolescent Pesticide Applicators in Egypt.

CONCLUSIONS: This study provides preliminary evidence of an association between occupational exposure to chlorpyrifos and ADHD symptoms among adolescent pesticide applicators in spite of its limited small sample size. There is a critical need to investigate the susceptibility of children and adolescents to repeated occupational and environmental exposures to pesticides because the developing brain may be uniquely sensitive to the neurotoxic effects of these agents.
PMID: 31077682 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neurotoxicology - May 7, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Rohlman DS, Ismail A, Bonner MR, Rasoul GA, Hendy O, Ortega Dickey L, Wang K, Olson JR Tags: Neurotoxicology Source Type: research