May 21, 2021 06:00 PM EDT
According to a new University of Michigan study, exposure to a chemical discovered in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is greatly linked to preterm births.
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Exposure to Glyphosate
The study, released in Environmental Health Perspectives, discovered that the appearance of the chemical in the urine of women in late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for untimely birth, while the connection was inconsistent or ineffective during the early stage of the pregnancy.
Professor of environmental health sciences and also senior associate dean for research at the U-M School of Public Health, senior author John Meeker said: Since many people are prone to some level of glyphosate and may not even be aware of it, if our outcomes reflect true connection, then the public health implications could be massive. Monica Silver - first author led the study while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sch
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The chemical in question is glyphosate which used in herbicides such as Roundup.
“We found that women that had detectable levels of glyphosate and its environmental breakdown product AMPA (aminomethylphosphonic acid) in their urine around the 26th week of pregnancy had an increased risk for preterm births,” said Monica Silver, lead author of the study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
If glyphosate was found, the women ran a 35% increased chance of a preterm birth.
“And women who had exposures to the breakdown product, AMPA, had an even higher 67% increased risk of preterm birth, Silver said.
Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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A new study from the University of Michigan has found a connection between exposure to widely used herbicides and premature births.
The University of Michigan conducted a nested case-control study among a cohort of pregnant women in northern Puerto Rico that examined the connection between exposure to a chemical found in herbicides and preterm births as part of ongoing research of contamination threats. The study, published Wednesday, found that women in the later months of their pregnancy had an increased risk for premature birth if exposed to the chemical glyphosate, which is found in weed killer Roundup and other herbicides.
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