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Scientist qualifies swimming pool chlorine risk to pregnant women.(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research by Dr. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen published in the April 2002 Occupational and Environmental Medicine highlights an area of potential risk to pregnant women through exposure to the by-products of chlorination in swimming pools.
"There is no empirical evidence that chlorination by-products in swimming pools have a detrimental effect on the health of swimming pool users, said Nieuwenhuijsen, from the department of environmental science and technology at Imperial College, London, in clarifying the risk factors. "Based on the available evidence, there is minimal, if any, risk for pregnant women and the benefits largely outweigh the risks. Swimming is beneficial to pregnant women, but it is also essential to disinfect water to get rid of dangerous pathogens.
"In other countries some studies have associated these by-products with spontaneous abortion, stillbirth and birth defects, but if you take all the studies together the results are inconsistent and inconclusive. These studies were not of swimming pool users but of the health effects of ...
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