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Article: Pesticides and neurologic symptoms: Kamel et al. respond.(Perspectives / Correspondence)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Burns and Goldstein raise several issues regarding our paper (Kamel et al. 2005), in which we reported that applicators chronically exposed to moderate levels of pesticide experience more neurologic symptoms. They assert that our measures of exposure and effect are not "meaningful." We disagree.
Burns and Goldstein state that "'multiple symptoms' is not a definable disease or illness." Although this is true, symptoms cause many medical visits and so are significant to public health. Further, we made no claim that applicators reporting more symptoms had a particular disease. Indeed, in some of our analyses we purposely excluded individuals reporting neurologic ...