Body Weight Decrease - Adverse Effects
Fluorinated and Fluoride Pesticides
beginning with
A-E F-G H-P Q-Z
 
 

DCH

Table of dramatic effects of weight loss in laboratory animals exposed to fluoride and/or fluorinated pesticides.
Anorexia

Acifluorfen, sodium
Acrinathrin
Cryolite
Ethalfluralin
Fipronil
Flonicamid
Fluoroacetamide
Hydramethylnon
Oxyfluorfen
PFOS and PFOA
Sodium fluorosilicate (human data)
Sulfuryl fluoride
Trifluralin

Cachexia - A profound and marked state of constitutional disorder, general ill health and malnutrition. The loss of body weight and muscle mass frequently seen in patients with advanced diseases.
Synonyms: cachexy, wasting

Haloxyfop-ethoxyethyl
Hydramethylnon
Sodium fluorosilicate (human data)

Wasting

Cryolite
Hydramethylnon 
Sodium fluorosilicate  (human data)

Emaciation

Carfentrazone-ethyl
Chlorfenapyr
Fluoroacetamide
Fluquinconazole
PFOS and PFOA
Tetraconazole

Significant or Marked

Acrinathrin
Benfluralin
Cyhalothrin
Diclosulam
Diflufenican
Diflufenzopyr
Epoxiconazole
Fipronil
Flonicamid
Floransulam
Fluazifop-P-butyl
Flucythrinate
Fludioxonil
Flumequine
Flumethrin
Fluquinconazole
Flurtamone
Flutriafol
Fluvalinate
Haloxyfop-ethoxyethyl
Hydramethylnon
Lactofen
Mefluidide and its potassium and diethanolamine salts
Metaflumizone (BAS 320 I)

Noviflumuron
Oxyfluorfen
Penoxsulam
PFOS and PFOA
Quinoxyfen
Sodium fluoroacetate
Tembotrione
1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a)
TFM (3-Trifluoro-Methyl-4-Nitro-Phenol)
Thiazopyr
Trifloxysulfuron-sodium
Triflusulfuron-methyl



Pediatr Res 2003 Jun;53(6 Pt 2):12A

Intellectual performance in young adult males born small for gestational age.

Lundgren M, Cnattingius S, Jonsson B, Tuvemo T

Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Background: Children born small for gestational age (SGA) have an increased risk for minimal neurologic dysfunctions and reduced scores in developmental tests in childhood.
Methods and material: The Swedish Birth Register, held by the National Board of Health and Welfare contains data on more than 99% of all births in Sweden since 1973. The registry includes data on maternal demographics, reproductive history, and complications during pregnancy, delivery and the neonatal period. All births and deaths are validated every year against another central population register, using the mothers' and the infants' unique personal identification number, assigned to each Swedish resident at birth. The Swedish Conscript Register includes information about Swedish males, conscripted for military service. Conscription is mandatory and enforced by law. At conscription, a computerized test for intellectual performance as well as height and weight are measured. This study is based on 254,426 male conscripts, of whom 3.9% were SGA, defined as shorter or/and lighter than-2 SDS. Catch up growth was defined as an adult height above -2SDS in an individual born SGA.
Aims: The aim of the present study was to analyse the relations between size at birth, gestational age, final height and intellectual performance, in a large cohort of young adult males.
Results: Low birth weight, short birth length and preterm birth increased the risk of subnormal intellectual performance. Males born SGA with catch-up growth and thus obtaining normal height at conscription performed better in intellectual performance compared with SGA males without catch-up growth. Those born short only, were better off than those born light only. Those born short and light were worst off. Within all the different SGA subgroups the risk of subnormal performance was significantly higher in those without catch-up growth. Compared with boys born appropriate for gestational age, males born SGA had increased risk of subnormal performance in all four dimensions studied, and the risk did not vary substantially between the dimensions.
Conclusions: All subgroups of SGA born males had an increased risk of subnormal intellectual performance. Spontaneous catch-up growth in height was associated with a risk reduction in all groups. The risk affected all dimensions of intellectual performance.

Definition of fluorosis: Chronic poisoning: Intake of more than 6 mg of fluoride per day results in fluorosis. Symptoms are weight loss, brittleness of bones, anemia, weakness, general ill health, stiffness of joints...
[Dreisbach, R. H. Handbook of Poisoning. 9th ed. Los Altos, California: Lange Medical Publications, 1977. 207]

Ref: Hazardous Substances Data Bank

 

 
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