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These results were robust to different assumptions about the decline in PCB exposure from GLSCF over time.
The pattern of effects of both maternal and paternal serum PCB concentrations were not materially affected by simultaneously adjusting for maternal and paternal PCB levels, although the confidence intervals became wider because there were only 76 couples for whom we had blood analyzed from both parents.
On one hand, there is increasing and rather convincing observational and experimental data underscoring the beneficial effects of marine fish consumption on fetal growth and gestation [ 1 2 3 ] . On the other hand, consumption of environmentally contaminated fish has been associated with decrements in gestation and birth weight in some studies [ 4 5 6 ] . Animal evidence suggests that Rhesus monkeys, rats and mice exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in utero have reductions in length of gestation and growth [ 7 8 9 ] . The results from accidental environmental exposures also report adverse effects on birth size and ectodermal manifestations among fetuses to various polyhalogenated hydrocarbons [ 10 11 ] . One occupational study has reported a negative relation between PCB exposure and infant birth weight, which no longer remained significant after adjusting for gestation and other variables related to birth weight [ 12 ] . Results from a birth cohort study in the Faroe Islands, a community with a high intake of marine fish, whale meat and blubber, supported a relation between marine fatty acids and diminished birth weight for gestation, but the effects were not attributed to the mercury or PCB exposure [ 13 ] .
For samples run in duplicate, the average percent difference was 20% or less for individual PCB congeners.
Our exposure is maternally reported Lake Ontario fish consumption and is only a crude proxy for PCB body burden.
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