Urine metabolic signatures of multiple environmental pollutants in pregnant women - an exposome approach
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Exposure to environmental pollutants, particularly during pregnancy, can have adverse consequences on child development but little is known about the effects of pollutant mixtures on endogenous metabolism in pregnant women. We aimed to identify urinary metabolic signatures associated with low level exposure to multiple environmental pollutants in pregnant women from the INMA (INfancia y Medio Ambiente) birth cohort (Spain, N = 750). 35 chemical exposures were quantified in first trimester blood samples (organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, PFAS), in cord blood (mercury), and twice in urine at 12 and 32 weeks of pregnancy (metals, phthalates, bisphenol A). 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolic profiles of urine were acquired in the same samples as pollutants. We explored associations between exposures and metabolism through an exposome-metabolome wide association scan and multivariate O2PLS modeling. Novel and reproducible associations were found across two periods of pregnancy for three nonpersistent pollutants and across two subcohorts for four of the persistent pollutants. We found novel metabolic signatures associated with arsenic exposure: TMAO and dimethylamine possibly related to gut microbial methylamine metabolism and homarine related to fish intake. Tobacco smoke exposure was related to coffee metabolism and PCBs with 3-hydroxyvaleric acid, usually released under ketoacidosis. These findings will have implications for further understanding of maternal-fetal health, and health across the life-course.
Date Issued
2018-11-20
Date Acceptance
2018-10-04
Citation
Environmental Science and Technology, 2018, 52 (22), pp.13469-13480
ISSN
0013-936X
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
13469
End Page
13480
Journal / Book Title
Environmental Science and Technology
Volume
52
Issue
22
Copyright Statement
© 2018 American Chemical Society
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Grant Number
308333
MR/M501669/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Engineering, Environmental
Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
BISPHENOL-A
EXPOSURE
STEROIDOGENESIS
TRIMETHYLAMINE
ENDOCRINE
CADMIUM
TAURINE
MERCURY
METALS
PLASMA
MD Multidisciplinary
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-10-04