Prenatal exposure to heavy metal mixtures and anthropometric birth outcomes: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous studies have suggested significant associations between prenatal exposure to heavy metals and newborn anthropometric measures. However, little is known about the effect of various heavy metal mixtures at relatively low concentrations. Hence, this study aimed to investigate associations between prenatal exposures to a wide range of individual heavy metals and heavy metal mixtures with anthropometric measures of newborns.

Methods

We recruited 975 mother-term infant pairs from two major hospitals in Israel. Associations between eight heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury, nickel, lead, selenium, and thallium) detected in maternal urine samples on the day of delivery with weight, length, and head circumference at birth were estimated using linear

SUBMITTER: Michael T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9798586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature