CHAMACOS

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CHAMACOS	Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas

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CHAMACOS is a longitudinal birth cohort study initiated to investigate pesticide and other environmental exposures in relation to the health and development of children living in agricultural communities in the Salinas Valley, California.

Prenatal Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Traits Related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Population Living in Proximity to Agriculture

To look at the preliminary findings of the CHAMACOS study, check out bit.ly/229vEKx.

Pesticide exposure and childhood development

Sixteen years later, the CHAMACOS researchers have published dozens of scientific papers.

In the marrow of our bones

Other CHAMACOS studies have also revealed links between flame retardant concentrations in mothers' blood and decreased fertility, lower birthweight babies and changes in thyroid hormone levels, even after controlling for exposure to pesticides and other environmental chemicals.

Flame Retardants: Neurodevelopmental Delays

And the chamacos ran every which way could to land in the white light

Chopper! Chopper!

Between October 1999 and October 2000, we enrolled 601 pregnant women as part of the CHAMACOS study.

Prenatal residential proximity to agricultural pesticide use and IQ in 7-year-old children

Prenatal urinary DAP metabolites were associated with shorter length of gestation and nonsignificantly increased birth weight, length, and head circumference in a cohort of low-income predominantly Mexican women in California (Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas; CHAMACOS cohort) (Eskenazi et al.

Prenatal exposure to organophosphorous pesticides and fetal growth: pooled results from four longitudinal birth cohort studies