The impact of prenatal mercury on neurobehavioral functioning longitudinally assessed from a young age to pre-adolescence in a Spanish birth cohort
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2024-07-01
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Environmental Research, Volume 252, pp. 1-11
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The objective is to investigate the relation between cord blood mercury concentrations and child neurobehavioural functioning assessed longitudinally during childhood until pre-adolescence. Methods: The study involves mothers and their offspring engaged in the Spanish INMA birth cohort (n = 1147). Total mercury (THg) was determined in cord blood. Behavioural problems were assessed several times during childhood using the ADHD-DSM-IV at age 4, SDQ at ages 7 and 11, CPRS-R:S and the CBCL at ages 7, 9 and 11. Covariates were obtained through questionnaires during the whole period. Multivariate generalised negative binomial (MGNB) models or mixed-effects MGNB (for those tests with information at one or more time points, respectively) were used to investigate the relation between cord blood THg and the children's punctuations. Models were adjusted for prenatal fish intake. Effect modification by sex, prenatal and postnatal fish intake, prenatal fruit and vegetable intake, and maternal polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations (PCBs) was assessed by interaction terms. Results: The geometric mean ± standard deviation of cord blood THg was 8.22 ± 2.19 μg/L. Despite adjusting for fish consumption, our results did not show any statistically significant relationship between prenatal Hg and the children's performance on behavioural tests conducted between the ages of 4 and 11. Upon assessing the impact of various factors, we observed no statistically significant interaction. Conclusion: Despite elevated prenatal THg exposure, no association was found with children's behavioural functioning assessed from early childhood to pre-adolescence. The nutrients in fish could offset the potential neurotoxic impact of Hg. Further birth cohort studies with longitudinal data are warranted.Description
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Behaviour, Child, Fish consumption, Mercury, Neurotoxicity
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Sarzo, B, Ballester, F, Soler-Blasco, R, Sunyer, J, Lopez-Espinosa, M J, Ibarluzea, J, Lozano, M, Julvez, J, Iriarte, G, Subiza-Perez, M, González-Safont, L, Fernández-Somoano, A, Vallejo-Ortega, J, Guxens, M, López-González, U A, Riaño-Galán, I, Riutort-Mayol, G, Murcia, M & Llop, S 2024, ' The impact of prenatal mercury on neurobehavioral functioning longitudinally assessed from a young age to pre-adolescence in a Spanish birth cohort ', Environmental Research, vol. 252, 118954, pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118954