Environmental chemical exposures during pregnancy and women's cardio-metabolic health

项目摘要 虽然许多研究都致力于探索环境化学物质暴露的影响 怀孕对婴儿和儿童健康的影响，相对较少的关注集中在这些潜在的影响 关于产妇健康的暴露。最近的证据表明，怀孕可能是人生的一个敏感期。 当然，在此期间，接触化学物质可能会对心脏代谢性疾病风险产生长期影响 在女性中。利用一项具有良好特征的现有队列研究，该研究在2009年招募了1410名孕妇-- 2014年，我们提出了以下目标：(1)量化期间环境暴露之间的关系 妊娠和短期孕产妇健康结果，包括：产后体重滞留、减少 母乳喂养的开始和持续时间，以及糖尿病的发生；(2)量化环境与 孕期暴露与长期孕产妇健康结局：身体成分、体重轨迹 从怀孕到分娩后约10年，肝脏脂肪、血糖紊乱和糖尿病，以及 心血管疾病；以及(3)评估母亲的特征和行为在以下方面的潜在作用 怀孕，特别是肥胖和饮食质量，在改变环境化学物质之间的联系 曝光率和结果。怀孕期间的暴露将包括血清全氟烷基物质和多氟烷基物质。 全氟辛烷磺酸(PFAS)、尿中邻苯二甲酸酯代谢物、苯酚和对羟基苯甲酸酯、金属、有机磷阻燃剂 对怀孕期间母亲住址的空气污染物进行建模。我们建议招聘700名 最初的研究参与者在产后10年左右回来进行随访。在这次访问中，参与者将 接受全面的新陈代谢健康评估，包括通过空气置换的身体成分 容积描记(BOD POD)，口服糖耐量试验血糖异常，MRI肝脏脂肪分数。 将提取医疗记录，以记录糖尿病和心血管疾病事件，并 重建体重轨迹。我们将评估怀孕期间的暴露与 使用协变量调整的多变量回归模型对连续的、二元的或时间间隔的产妇结局进行研究 适当的事件数据。暴露将作为单一污染物和混合污染物进行评估，使用高级 贝叶斯核机回归和贝叶斯分层Cox生存等统计方法 模特们。我们假设孕妇孕前体重指数和孕期饮食质量 将改变环境中化学物质暴露对心脏代谢结果的影响，从而 在怀孕期间肥胖或饮食质量差的女性中，相关性更强 怀孕了。这项研究的结果将为公共卫生干预提供信息，以确定哪些女性可能是 尤其是在怀孕期间容易受到环境化学物质暴露的影响，并改善 孕期环境，以促进子女和母亲的长期健康。

Project Summary While much research has been devoted to exploring the impact of environmental chemical exposures during pregnancy on infant and child health, relatively little attention has focused on the potential influence of these exposures on maternal health. Recent evidence suggests that pregnancy may be a sensitive period in the life course, during which chemical exposures may have long-lasting effects on cardio-metabolic disease risk among women. Using a well-characterized existing cohort study that enrolled 1,410 pregnant women in 2009- 2014, we propose the following aims: (1) quantify the relationship between environmental exposures during pregnancy and short-term maternal health outcomes including: postpartum weight retention, reduced breastfeeding initiation and duration, and incident diabetes; (2) quantify the relationship between environmental exposures during pregnancy and long-term maternal health outcomes: body composition, weight trajectories from pregnancy through ~10 years after parturition, hepatic fat, dysglycemia and incident diabetes, and cardiovascular disease; and (3) evaluate the potential role of maternal characteristics and behaviors during pregnancy, specifically obesity and diet quality, in modifying associations between environmental chemical exposures and outcomes. Exposures during pregnancy will include serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), urinary phthalate metabolites, phenols and parabens, metals, organophosphate flame retardants, and modeled air pollutants at the maternal residential address during pregnancy. We propose to recruit 700 of the original study participants to return for a follow-up visit at ~10 years postpartum. At this visit, participants will undergo a comprehensive metabolic health evaluation including body composition via air displacement plethysmography (BOD POD), dysglycemia via oral glucose tolerance test, and hepatic fat fraction via MRI. Medical records will be abstracted to document incident diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and to reconstruct body weight trajectories. We will estimate associations between exposures during pregnancy and maternal outcomes using covariate-adjusted multivariable regression models for continuous, binary, or time-to- event data, as appropriate. Exposures will be evaluated as single pollutants and as mixtures using advanced statistical methods including Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression and Bayesian hierarchical Cox survival models. We hypothesize that maternal body mass index prior to pregnancy and diet quality during pregnancy will modify the effects of environmental chemical exposures on cardio-metabolic outcomes, such that associations will be stronger among women with obesity entering pregnancy or with poor diet quality during pregnancy. The results of this study will inform public health interventions to identify women who may be especially susceptible to the effects of environmental chemical exposures during pregnancy, and to improve the environment of pregnancy to promote the long-term health of both the offspring and the mother.