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Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and Childhood Growth and Blood Pressure: Evidence from the Spanish INMA-Sabadell Birth Cohort Study.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Human evidence on the effects of early life phthalate exposure on obesity and cardiovascular disease risks, reported by experimental studies, is limited to a few cross-sectional studies.

Objectives

We evaluated the associations between prenatal phthalate exposure and childhood growth and blood pressure in a Spanish birth cohort study.

Methods

We assessed exposure using the average of two phthalate metabolite spot-urine concentrations collected from the mothers in the first and third pregnancy trimesters (creatinine-adjusted, n = 391). Study outcomes were the difference in age- and sex-specific z-scores for weight between birth and 6 months of age; and repeated age- and sex-specific z-scores for body mass index (BMI) at 1, 4, and 7 years; waist-to-height ratio at 4 and 7 years; and age- and height-specific z-scores for systolic and diastolic blood pressure at 4 and 7 years.

Results

The sum of five high-molecular-weight phthalate metabolites (?HMWPm) was associated with lower weight z-score difference between birth and 6 months (? per doubling of exposure = -0.41; 95% CI: -0.75, -0.06) and BMI z-scores at later ages in boys (? = -0.28; 95% CI: -0.60, 0.03) and with higher weight z-score difference (? = 0.24; 95% CI: -0.16, 0.65) and BMI z-scores in girls (? = 0.30; 95% CI: -0.04, 0.64) (p for sex interaction = 0.01 and 0.05, respectively). The sum of three low-molecular-weight phthalates (?LMWPm) was not significantly associated with any of the growth outcomes. ?HMWPm and ?LMWPm were associated with lower systolic blood pressure z-scores in girls but not in boys.

Conclusions

This study suggests that prenatal phthalate exposure may be associated with postnatal growth and blood pressure in a sex-specific manner. Inconsistencies with previous cross-sectional findings highlight the necessity for evaluating phthalate health effects in prospective studies.

SUBMITTER: Valvi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590754 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and Childhood Growth and Blood Pressure: Evidence from the Spanish INMA-Sabadell Birth Cohort Study.

Valvi Damaskini D   Casas Maribel M   Romaguera Dora D   Monfort Nuria N   Ventura Rosa R   Martinez David D   Sunyer Jordi J   Vrijheid Martine M  

Environmental health perspectives 20150407 10


<h4>Background</h4>Human evidence on the effects of early life phthalate exposure on obesity and cardiovascular disease risks, reported by experimental studies, is limited to a few cross-sectional studies.<h4>Objectives</h4>We evaluated the associations between prenatal phthalate exposure and childhood growth and blood pressure in a Spanish birth cohort study.<h4>Methods</h4>We assessed exposure using the average of two phthalate metabolite spot-urine concentrations collected from the mothers in  ...[more]

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