Pregnant women who are exposed to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water may have a higher risk of stillbirth and placental abruption. A new study compared 1,091 PCE-exposed pregnancies and 1,019 unexposed pregnancies among 1,766 women living in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where water was contaminated in the late 1960s to the early 1980s by the installation of vinyl-lined asbestos cement pipes.
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