Occupational reporiductive system diseases in female workers employed at worplaces with harmful working conditions

Maternal risk factors for a child’s health prior to and during pregnancy (results of long-term cohort monitoring in Vologda region)

“…Harmful working conditions at a woman's workplace can also affect her reproductive health and make for pathologies developing in children during the first year of their life. Chemical pollution was established to produce negative effects on health and reproductive functions of female workers employed at metallurgic plants, textile productions, gas and oil processing enterprises; female model makers and controllers employed in civil engineering; female laboratory workers dealing with chemical analysis; female engineers in chemical industry; female surgeons, gynecologists, obstetricians, and nurses at in-patient surgical hospitals [27]. These female workers are more frequently exposed to threats of abortions, spontaneous miscarriages, complications during pregnancy and birth, and offspring's congenital malformations.…”

Risk of sensitization to ecopollutants in teenagers with inherited chemical burden

“…It was revealed that chemotherapy applied in treating fathers for cancer modified sperm epigenome and entailed probable transgenerational transfer [19]. It was also established that when male and female rats were poisoned with combustion products prior to coupling, it led to changes in offspring's behavior and development [20]; when parents, either mothers or fathers or both, worked under adverse conditions, it was associated with an increase in primary morbidity, chronic pathology of the upper respiratory tracts, and frequent positive tests for allergens in children [21]. It was also shown that threats of miscarriage, gestosis in the first half of pregnancy, intrauterine hypoxia, and delayed fetus development in women employed at petroleum processing enterprises were to a great extent occupationally induced [10,21].…”