Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Volume 217, Issue 4-5, Pages 473-482Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2013.09.003
Keywords
Aging; Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE); Persistent organic pollutants (POPS); Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs); Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Thyroid hormones
Funding
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry [H75/ATH298312]
- National Institute for Aging [R15/AG033379-01A1]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and thyroid hormones in an aging population. Forty-eight women and 66 men, aged 55-74 years and living in upper Hudson River communities completed a questionnaire and provided blood specimens. Serum was analyzed for thyrotropin (thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH), free (fT(4)) and total thyroxine (T-4), total triiodothyronine (T-3), and for POPs. POPs included 39 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) determined by gas chromatography with electron capture detection (GC-ECD), and nine polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) determined by high-resolution gas chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry detection (HRGC-HRMS). Multivariable linear regression analysis was used to evaluate associations between thyroid hormones and sums of POPs, adjusted for covariates and stratified by sex. Effects were expressed as differences in thyroid hormone levels associated with a doubling in the level of exposure. Among women, DDT +DDE increased T-4 by 0.34 mu z/dL (P= 0.04) and T-3 by 2.78 ng/dL (P= 0.05). Also in women, sums of PCBs in conjunction with PBDEs elicited increases of 24.39-80.85 ng/dL T-3 (P< 0.05), and sums of PCBs in conjunction with DDT+ DDE elicited increases of 0.18-0.31 mu g/dL T-4 (P< 0.05). For men estrogenic PCBs were associated with a 19.82 ng/dL T-3 decrease (P= 0.003), and the sum of estrogenic PCBs in conjunction with DDT + DDE elicited an 18.02 ng/dL T-3 decrease (P=0.04). Given age-related declines in physiologic reserve, the influence of POPs on thyroid hormones in aging populations may have clinical implications and merits further investigation. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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