Association between maternal insecticide use and otitis media in one-year-old children in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Abstract Otitis media (OM) is common among young children and is related to hearing loss. We investigated the association between maternal insecticide use, from conception to the first and second/third trimesters, and OM events in children in the first year of age. Data from Japan Environment and Ch...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Utsunomiya, Naoko Taniguchi, Yohei Taniguchi, Tetsuro Fujino, Yasuhiko Tanaka, Hideki Hasunuma, Masumi Okuda, Masayuki Shima, Yasuhiro Takeshima, The Japan Environment, and Children’s Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05433-2