Prenatal Methylmercury and Cognitive Deficit

Abstract

A cohort of 1022 consecutive singleton births during 1986-87 in the Faroe Islands, born to mothers who had consumed methylmercury-polluted pilot whale meat and having increased mercury concentrations in cord blood and maternal hair, received neurobehavioral evaluations at 7 years of age at Odense University, Denmark.

Keywords

• prenatal methylmercury
• visuospatial
• developmental delay