Environmental Health Perspectives, July 1st, 2006
In their letter to EHP, McEwen and Renner (2006) dismissed the findings of Swan et al. (2005), who reported a significant relationship between a measure of anogenital distance (AGD) in boys and levels of phthalate metabolites in their mothers' urine during pregnancy. AGD is a sexually dimorphic index that, on average, is twice as great in males as in females, so it serves as a marker of proper male development. McEwen and Renner based their argument on an idiosyncratic form of logic. They asserted that
All male infants evaluated in the study appeared normal ... there is no evidence for po...
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