Prenatal and postnatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder: a pooled analysis of seven European birth cohort studies
Por:
Forns J, Stigum H, Høyer BB, Sioen I, Sovcikova E, Nowack N, Lopez-Espinosa MJ, Guxens M, Ibarluzea J, Torrent M, Wittsiepe J, Govarts E, Trnovec T, Chevrier C, Toft G, Vrijheid M, Iszatt N and Eggesbø M
Publicada:
1 ago 2018
Resumen:
Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasing worldwide for reasons largely unknown and environmental chemicals with neurotoxic properties, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have been proposed to play a role. We investigated the association between prenatal and postnatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl-153 (PCB-153), p-p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p-p'-DDE) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and ADHD in childhood.
Methods: We pooled seven European birth cohort studies encompassing 4437 motherchild pairs from the general population with concentrations of PCB-153, p-p'-DDE and HCB measured in cord blood, maternal blood or milk. We then calculated prenatal (birth) and postnatal (3, 6, 12 and 24 months) POP concentrations using a pharmacokinetic model. The operational definition of ADHD varied across cohorts and ranged from doctor diagnosis obtained from patient registries to maternal or teachers reports. We used multilevel (mixed) logistic regression models to estimate the associations between exposure to POPs at birth, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months and ADHD.
Results: The global prevalence of ADHD in our study was 6%. The mean age at assessment of ADHD was 5.8 years (range: 3.8-9.5 years). We found no association between exposure to PCB-153, p-p'-DDE and HCB at any age point between birth and 24 months and ADHD, in the pooled analyses (pooled odds ratios ranging from 1.00 to 1.01). A number of sensitivity analyses gave basically the same results.
Conclusions: In the largest study to date of 4437 children in seven European birth cohorts, we did not observe any association between either pre- or postnatal exposure (up to 24 months) to PCB-153, p-p'-DDE and HCB and the risk of ADHD before the age of 10 years.
Filiaciones:
Forns J:
Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Stigum H:
Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Høyer BB:
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Sioen I:
Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Sovcikova E:
Department of Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Nowack N:
Department of Developmental Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Epidemiology and Environmental Health Joint Research Unit, FISABIO-Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain
Guxens M:
Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain
ISGlobal, Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Centre-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Ibarluzea J:
Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain
Sub-Directorate for Public Health of Gipuzkoa, Department of Health of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain
BIODONOSTIA Health Research Institute, Basque Country, Spain
Faculty of Psychology, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
Torrent M:
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Menorca Health Area, Balearic Health Service (ib-salut), Menorca, Spain
Wittsiepe J:
Department of Hygiene, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Govarts E:
Unit Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
Trnovec T:
Faculty of Public Health, Department of Environmental Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Chevrier C:
INSERM, UMR1085 IRSET, University Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Toft G:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Vrijheid M:
Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain
ISGlobal, Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Iszatt N:
Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Eggesbø M:
Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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