Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 1093 |
| Title: | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and childhood autism in association with prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances: a nested case-control study in the Danish National Birth Cohort. |
| Author(s): | Liew Z, Ritz B, et al |
| Reference: | Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Apr;123(4):367-73. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408412. Epub 2014 Dec 19. |
| Place of Study: | Denmark |
| Abstract: | :Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent pollutants found to be endocrine disruptive and neurotoxic in animals. Positive correlations between PFASs and neurobehavioral problems in children were reported in cross-sectional data, but findings from prospective studies are limited.
The authors investigated whether prenatal exposure to PFASs is associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or childhood autism in children.
Among 83,389 mother-child pairs enrolled in the Danish National Birth Cohort during 1996-2002, the authors identified 890 ADHD cases and 301 childhood autism cases from the Danish National Hospital Registry and the Danish Psychiatric Central Registry. From this cohort, they randomly selected 220 cases each of ADHD and autism, and they also randomly selected 550 controls frequency matched by child's sex. Sixteen PFASs were measured in maternal plasma collected in early or mid-pregnancy. We calculated risk ratios (RRs) using generalized linear models, taking into account sampling weights.
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were detected in all samples; four other PFASs were quantified in ≥ 90% of the samples. The authors did not find consistent evidence of associations between mother's PFAS plasma levels and ADHD [per natural log nanograms per milliliter increase: PFOS RR = 0.87 (95% CI: 0.74, 1.02); PFOA RR = 0.98 (95% CI: 0.82, 1.16)] or autism [per natural log nanograms per milliliter increase: PFOS RR = 0.92 (95% CI: 0.69, 1.22); PFOA RR = 0.98 (95% CI: 0.73, 1.31)]. They found positive as well as negative associations between higher PFAS quartiles and ADHD in models that simultaneously adjusted for all PFASs, but these estimates were imprecise.
CONCLUSIONS:
In this study the authors found no consistent evidence to suggest that prenatal PFAS exposure increases the risk of ADHD or childhood autism in children. |
| Keyword(s): | ADHD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, autistic spectrum disorder, perfluoroalkyl |
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