Method of Preventing Neurodevelopmental Damage Due to Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Toxins

Abstract

A method of assessing the risk in female patients of having neurocognitive developmentally disabled children. The method including measuring the toxin concentrations in the urine of a female subject wishing to become pregnant, or of a subject that is pregnant. Quantify the risk of neurocognitive developmentally disabled children born to the subject by comparing the toxin concentrations in the subject to reference concentrations utilizing a weighting algorithm. Advise the patient of the quantified risk of having neurocognitive developmentally disabled children. The concentrations of dialkyl phosphates, endocrine disruptors, and xenoestrogens compounds are evaluated. Additionally, the level of PON1 activity may be included in the risk assessment weighting algorithm.

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