Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 239, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117311
Keywords
Asthma; Environmental exposure; Prenatal exposure; Immunotoxicity; Poly; and perfluoroalkyl substances
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Exposure to poly: and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in early life may increase the risk of childhood asthma, but the associations between maternal serum concentrations of PFAS during pregnancy and clinician-diagnosed asthma incidence in offspring have been inconsistent. In this study, no significant association was found between prenatal PFAS concentrations and the incidence of clinician-diagnosed asthma in children followed to eight years of age.
Exposure to poly: and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in early life may increase the risk of childhood asthma, but evidence has been inconsistent. We estimated associations between maternal serum concentrations of PFAS during pregnancy and clinician-diagnosed asthma incidence in offspring through age eight. We included 597 mother-child pairs with PFAS quantified in mid-pregnancy serum and childhood medical records reviewed for asthma diagnoses. We used separate Cox proportional hazards models to assess the relationship between logtransformed concentrations of five PFAS and the incidence of asthma. We estimated associations between the PFAS mixture and clinician-diagnosed asthma incidence using quantile-based g-computation. PFAS concentrations were similar to those among females in the US general population. Seventeen percent of children (N = 104) were diagnosed with asthma during follow-up. Median (interquartile range) duration of follow-up was 4.7 (4.0, 6.2) years, and median age at asthma diagnosis was 1.7 (0.9, 2.8) years. All adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) were elevated, but all 95% confidence intervals (CI) included the null. The HR (95% CI) of asthma for a one-quartile increase in the PFAS mixture was 1.17 (0.86, 1.61). In this cohort of children followed to eight years of age, prenatal PFAS concentrations were not significantly associated with incidence of clinician-diagnosed asthma.
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