<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soni, Monica</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Haiying</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cepeda, Milton J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berenson, Lesley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smith, Sydney</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kim A Anderson</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quandt, Sara A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arcury, Thomas A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Laurienti, Paul J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Burdette, Jonathan H</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A longitudinal study comparing the impact of pesticide exposure on cognitive abilities of Latinx children from rural farmworker and urban non-farmworker families.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurotoxicol Teratol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurotoxicol Teratol</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025 Apr 13</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">109</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">107450</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Growing evidence shows that pesticide exposure contributes to numerous adverse health effects. Pesticide exposure can be especially problematic for vulnerable populations, and even more so for children in vulnerable populations who are still developing, such as Latinx children. Several studies have demonstrated the negative cognitive effects of prenatal exposure to pesticides, particularly organophosphates (OPs). We previously reported the results from a baseline study (Dobbins et al., 2022) designed to compare the cognitive abilities of 8-year-old children from rural, farmworking families and urban, non-farmworking families. We found that the children from both populations have considerable pesticide exposure, but to different chemicals. The children of farmworkers had greater exposure to OPs, while the children of non-farmworkers had greater exposure to organochlorines (OCs) and pyrethroids. Using the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V), baseline analyses determined that children of non-farmworkers exhibited lower cognitive scores, specifically on the VSI (visual spatial) and VCI (verbal comprehension) indices. The current study examined the longitudinal significance of these findings in the same participants over a 2-3-year period. We present evidence that children from non-farmworking families exhibited significant declines on the FRI (fluid reasoning index) of the WISC-V. The children from farmworker families did not decline, and this longitudinal difference between the groups was significant. Our findings further suggest that these declines in FRI scores are likely due to greater cumulative OC exposure over the entire longitudinal period.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dobbins, Dorothy L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Haiying Chen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milton J. Cepeda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berenson, Lesley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jennifer W Talton</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kim A Anderson</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jonathan H Burdette</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sara A Quandt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thomas A Arcury</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paul J Laurienti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comparing impact of pesticide exposure on cognitive abilities of Latinx children from rural farmworker and urban non-farmworker families in North Carolina.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurotoxicol Teratol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurotoxicol Teratol</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agriculture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Child</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Child, Preschool</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cognition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental Exposure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Farmers</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">North Carolina</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Occupational Exposure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pesticides</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pregnancy</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022 Jul-Aug</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">92</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">107106</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Pesticide exposure remains a health hazard despite extensive study into adverse effects. Children in vulnerable populations, such as Latinx children in farmworker families, are particularly at risk for exposure. Several studies have demonstrated the detrimental cognitive effects of prenatal exposure to pesticides, particularly organophosphates (OPs) within this high-risk group. However, results from studies investigating the cognitive effects of early childhood pesticide exposure are equivocal. Most studies examining the effects of pesticide exposure have used correlative analyses rather than examining populations with expected high and low exposure. The current study compares 8-year-old children from rural families of farmworkers and urban, non-farmworker families. We used the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fifth Edition (WISC-V) to assess cognitive performance in these children. We designed this study with the expectation that children from farmworker families would have greater exposure to agricultural pesticides than urban, non-farmworker children. This assumption of exposure to agricultural pesticides was confirmed in a recent report that assessed exposure probabilities using life history calendars. However, data from passive wristband sampling of acute (1-week) pesticide exposure from these same children indicate that both study populations have considerable pesticide exposure but to different chemicals. As expected the children of farmworkers had greater OP exposure than non-farmworker children, but the non-farmworker children had greater exposure to two other classes of insecticides (organochlorines [OCs] and pyrethroids). Our analyses considered these findings. A comparison of the cognitive scores between groups revealed that children from farmworker families had slightly higher performance on the Visual-Spatial Index (VSI) and Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) when compared to children from non-farmworker families. Regression analyses where pesticide exposure was included as covariates revealed that OC exposure accounted for the largest portion of the group differences for both VSI and VCI. However, a post-hoc moderation analysis did not find significant interactions. The main study outcome was that the non-farmworker children exhibited lower WISC-V scores than the children from farmworker families, and the analyses incorporating pesticide exposure measures raise the hypothesis the that pervasive and persistent nature of a variety of pesticides may have adverse effects on the neurodevelopment of young Latinx children whether living in rural or non-farmworker environments.&lt;/p&gt;
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