Association between the pregnancy exposome and fetal growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several environmental contaminants were shown to possibly influence fetal growth, generally from single exposure family studies, which are prone to publication bias and confounding by co-exposures. The exposome paradigm offers perspectives to avoid selective reporting of findings and to control for confounding by co-exposures. We aimed to characterize associations of fetal growth with the pregnancy chemical and external exposomes.

Methods

Within the Human Early-Life Exposome project, 131 prenatal exposures were assessed using biomarkers and environmental models in 1287 mother-child pairs from six European cohorts. We investigated their associations with fetal growth using a deletion-substitution-addition (DSA) algorithm considering all exposures simultaneously, an

SUBMITTER: Agier L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266545 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature