Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST HoQCsR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In 1979 in Taiwan, about 2000 people were poisoned by cooking oil contaminated with heat-degraded polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Victims developed chloracne and other symptoms ; the illness is called Yucheng (oil disease). The chemicals persist in the victims'bodies and some are toxic to the female reproductive system in experimental animals. In 1993-1994, we identified the living Yucheng women and neighbourhood controls and interviewed them about their reproductive experience. Of the 596 living Yucheng women aged 30-59 years, we found 368, and interviewed 356. We identified 329 controls, and interviewed 312. Of the Yucheng women, 16% reported abnormal menstrual bleeding compared to 8% (P
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