1. Prenatal and Postnatal Bisphenol A Exposure and Body Mass Index in Childhood in the CHAMACOS Cohort.
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Harley, Kim G., Schall, Raul Aguilar, Chevrier, Jonathan, Tyler, Kristin, Aguirre, Helen, Bradman, Asa, Holland, Nina T., Lustig, Robert H., Calafat, Antonia M., and Eskenazi, Brenda
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ANALYSIS of variance , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *EPIDEMIOLOGY , *INTERVIEWING , *LONGITUDINAL method , *RESEARCH methodology , *CHILDHOOD obesity , *PROBABILITY theory , *RESEARCH funding , *STATISTICS , *DATA analysis , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *BODY mass index , *CROSS-sectional method , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *PRENATAL exposure delayed effects , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Background: Bisphenol A (BPA), a widely used endocrine-disrupting chemical, has been associated with increased body weight and fat deposition in rodents. Objectives: We examined whether prenatal and postnatal urinary BPA concentrations were associated with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, percent body fat, and obesity in 9-year-old children (n = 311) in the CHAMACOS longitudinal cohort study. Methods: BPA was measured in spot urine samples collected from mothers twice during pregnancy and from children at 5 and 9 years of age. Results: Prenatal urinary BPA concentrations were associated with decreased BMI at 9 years of age in girls but not boys. Among girls, being in the highest tertile of prenatal BPA concentrations was associated with decreased BMI z-score (β = -0.47, 95% CI: -0.87, -0.07) and percent body fat (β = -4.36, 95% CI: -8.37, -0.34) and decreased odds of overweight/obesity [odds ratio (OR) = 0.37, 95% CI: 0.16, 0.91] compared with girls in the lowest tertile. These findings were strongest in prepubertal girls. Urinary BPA concentrations at 5 years of age were not associated with any anthropometric parameters at 5 or 9 years, but BPA concentrations at 9 years were positively associated with BMI, waist circumference, fat mass, and overweight/obesity at 9 years in boys and girls. Conclusions: Consistent with other cross-sectional studies, higher urinary BPA concentrations at 9 years of age were associated with increased adiposity at 9 years. However, increasing BPA concentrations in mothers during pregnancy were associated with decreased BMI, body fat, and overweight/obesity among their daughters at 9 years of age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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