Estimated Dietary Bisphenol-A Exposure and Adiposity in Samoan Mothers and Children.

ABSTRACT: The Pacific Island nation of Samoa is marked by prevalent obesity and an increasing dependence on packaged foods likely to contain the endocrine disruptor bisphenol-A (BPA). We evaluated participant- and household-level characteristics associated with estimated dietary BPA exposure in Samoan mothers and their children and examined associations between dietary BPA exposure and body mass index (BMI) and abdominal circumference (AC). Dietary BPA exposure indices were estimated for 399 mother-child pairs by combining information from dietary questionnaires and relative concentrations of BPA measured in foods/beverages. We observed moderate to strong correlation between mother-child daily BPA indices (Spearman's rho = 0.7, p < 0.0001). In mothers, we observed lower daily BPA indices in those wh

SUBMITTER: Heinsberg LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7560430 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature