Neighborhood Factors and Urinary Metabolites of Nicotine, Phthalates, and Dichlorobenzene.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Exposures to environmental chemicals are ubiquitous in the US. Little is known about how neighborhood factors contribute to exposures.

Methods

Growing Up Healthy is a prospective cohort study of environmental exposures and growth and development among Hispanic and African American children (n = 506) in New York City. We sought to determine associations between neighborhood-level factors (eg, housing type, school, time spent indoors versus outdoors) and urinary biomarkers of chemical exposures suspected to be associated with these characteristics (cotinine, 2,5-dichlorophenol, and phthalate metabolites) adjusted by age, sex, race, and caregiver education and language.

Results

Urinary cotinine concentrations revealed a prevalent exposure

SUBMITTER: Galvez MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745675 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature