Associations of Prenatal Environmental Phenol and Phthalate Biomarkers with Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Among Children Aged 6 and 7 years

Overview

Journal Environ Int

Specialties Environmental Health
Toxicology

Date 2018 Mar 19

PMID 29550712

Citations 37

Authors

Jessie P Buckley

Lesliam Quiros-Alcala

Susan L Teitelbaum

Antonia M Calafat

Mary S Wolff

Stephanie M Engel

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Abstract

Background: Prenatal environmental phenol and phthalate exposures may alter immune or inflammatory responses leading to respiratory and allergic disease.

Objectives: We estimated associations of prenatal environmental phenol and phthalate biomarkers with respiratory and allergic outcomes among children in the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Study.

Methods: We quantified urinary biomarkers of benzophenone-3, bisphenol A, paradichlorobenzene (as 2,5-dichlorophenol), triclosan, and 10 phthalate metabolites in third trimester maternal samples and assessed asthma, wheeze, and atopic skin conditions via parent questionnaires at ages 6 and 7 years (n = 164 children with 240 observations). We used logistic regression to estimate covariate-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) per standard deviation difference in natural log biomarker concentrations and examined effect measure modification by child's sex.

Results: Associations of prenatal 2,5-dichlorophenol (all outcomes) and bisphenol A (asthma outcomes) were modified by child's sex, with increased odds of outcomes among boys but not girls. Among boys, ORs for asthma diagnosis per standard deviation difference in biomarker concentration were 3.00 (95% CI: 1.36, 6.59) for 2,5-dichlorophenol and 3.04 (95% CI: 1.38, 6.68) for bisphenol A. Wheeze in the past 12 months was inversely associated with low molecular weight phthalate metabolites among girls only (OR: 0.27, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.59) and with benzophenone-3 among all children (OR: 0.65, 95% CI: 0.44, 0.96).

Conclusions: Prenatal bisphenol A and paradichlorobenzene exposures were associated with pediatric respiratory outcomes among boys. Future studies may shed light on biological mechanisms and potential sexually-dimorphic effects of select phenols and phthalates on respiratory disease development.

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Associations of Prenatal Environmental Phenol and Phthalate Biomarkers with Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Among Children Aged 6 and 7 years

Associations of Prenatal Environmental Phenol and Phthalate Biomarkers with Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Among Children Aged 6 and 7 years