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High levels of DDT in breast milk: Intake, risk, lactation duration, and involvement of gender

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Pollution, July 2012
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Title
High levels of DDT in breast milk: Intake, risk, lactation duration, and involvement of gender
Published in
Environmental Pollution, July 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.06.009
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Authors

Hindrik Bouwman, Henrik Kylin, Barbara Sereda, Riana Bornman

Abstract

We investigated presence and levels of DDT in 163 breast milk samples from four South African villages where, in three of them, malaria is controlled with DDT-sprayed indoors. Mean ΣDDT levels in breast milk were 18, 11, and 9.5 mg/kg mf (milk fat) from the three DDT-sprayed villages, respectively, including the highest ΣDDT level ever reported for breast milk from South Africa (140 mg/kg mf). Understanding the causes for these differences would be informative for exposure reduction intervention. The Provisional Tolerable Daily Intake (PTDI) for DDT by infants, and the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) were significantly exceeded. DDT had no effect on duration of lactation. There were indications (not significant) from DDT-sprayed villages that first-born female infants drink milk with more ΣDDT than first-born male infants, and vice versa for multipara male and female infants, suggesting gender involvement on levels of DDT in breast milk - requiring further investigation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Unknown 116 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 14%
Researcher 13 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 24 20%
Unknown 31 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 20 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 7%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Other 24 20%
Unknown 34 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 February 2020.
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#1,754,745
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Outputs from Environmental Pollution
#721
of 13,433 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,157
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Outputs of similar age from Environmental Pollution
#3
of 29 outputs
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