Prenatal exposure to multiple organochlorine compounds and childhood body mass index. Issue 3 (22nd June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Colicino, Elena; Margetaki, Katerina; Valvi, Damaskini; Pedretti, Nicolo Foppa; Stratakis, Nikos; Vafeiadi, Marina; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Kyrtopoulos, Soterios A.; Kiviranta, Hannu; Stephanou, Euripides G.; Kogevinas, Manolis; McConnell, Rob; Berhane, Kiros T.; Chatzi, Leda; Conti, David V.
• Is Part Of: Environmental epidemiology. Volume 6:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: e201
• Publication Date: 2022-06-22
• Subjects: Chemical mixture -- Outcome trajectories -- Body mass index -- Organochlorine compounds -- Bayesian weighted quantile sum regressions -- Bayesian varying coefficient kernel machine regressions; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; 614.4
• DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000201
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2474-7882

Abstract

Abstract : Background: Prenatal exposure to organochlorine compounds (OCs) has been associated with increased childhood body mass index (BMI); however, only a few studies have focused on longitudinal BMI trajectories, and none of them used multiple exposure mixture approaches. Aim: To determine the association between in-utero exposure to eight OCs and childhood BMI measures (BMI and BMI z-score) at 4 years and their yearly change across 4–12 years of age in 279 Rhea child-mother dyads. Methods: We applied three approaches: (1) linear mixed-effect regressions (LMR) to associate individual compounds with BMI measures; (2) Bayesian weighted quantile sum regressions (BWQSR) to provide an overall OC mixture association with BMI measures; and (3)Bayesian varying coefficient kernel machine regressions (BVCKMR) to model nonlinear and nonadditive associations. Results: In the LMR, yearly change of BMI measures was consistently associated with a quartile increase in hexachlorobenzene (HCB) (estimate [95% Confidence or Credible interval] BMI: 0.10 [0.06, 0.14]; BMI z-score: 0.02 [0.01, 0.04]). BWQSR results showed that a quartile increase in mixture concentrations was associated with yearly increase of BMI measures (BMI: 0.10 [0.01, 0.18]; BMI z-score: 0.03 [0.003, 0.06]). In the BVCKMR, a quartile increase in dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene concentrations was associated with higher BMI measures at 4 years (BMI: 0.33 [0.24, 0.43]; BMI z-score: 0.19 [0.15, 0.24]); whereas a quartile increase in HCB and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-118 levels was positively associated with BMI measures yearly change (BMI: HCB:0.10 [0.07, 0.13], PCB-118:0.08 [0.04, 012]; BMI z-score: HCB:0.03 [0.02, 0.05], PCB-118:0.02 [0.002, 04]). BVCKMR suggested that PCBs had nonlinear relationships with BMI measures, and HCB interacted with other compounds. Conclusions: All analyses consistently demonstrated detrimental associations between prenatal OC exposures and childhood BMI measures.