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Warum Ärzte nicht mit schwangeren Frauen über giftige Chemikalien reden

June 30, 2014
By Deborah Kotz

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Why doctors don’t talk to pregnant women about toxic chemicals

Reducing pregnant women’s exposure to environmental toxins was recently deemed “critical” by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to prevent birth defects and other fetal health problems. But a survey published last week of more than 2,500 physician members of that group found that fewer than one in five of them ask pregnant patients about any exposure they have had to unsafe levels of toxic chemicals.

Eighty percent of these doctors agreed that they could have an impact on lowering exposure to dangerous substances, but only about 7 percent said they had any training on the topic, according to the study published in the journal PLOS One. ...

Counseling Patients on Preventing Prenatal Environmental Exposures - A Mixed-Methods Study of Obstetricians
Naomi E. Stotland, Patrice Sutton, Jessica Trowbridge, Dylan S. Atchley, Jeanne Conry, Leonardo Trasande, Barbara Gerbert, Annemarie Charlesworth, Tracey J. Woodruff

Published: June 25, 2014