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Kaitlyn Huegel Mayer1, Trimble L B Spitzer1
1Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, United States.
Introduction:
It has been reported in small studies that fighter pilots have a higher likelihood of producing female offspring secondary to job-related exposures. No large-scale study has investigated this potential gender disparity.
Methods:
This retrospective study utilized electronic medical record systems to identify men with flight-related occupations within the U.S. military from September 2012 to January 2018. The gender of offspring born to those men at least one year after entry into the flight community were compared to gender rates of children born to the U.S. general population during the same time period.
Results:
10,879 and 62,624 children born to fighter pilots and pilots of non-fighter type aircraft respectively were compared. The gender distribution of children born to both communities was similar to U.S. general population trends.
Conclusions:
This large-scale study provides social reassurances that the degree of risk imposed on our nation's air defense force does not influence the gender balance of the subsequent generation.
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