Relationships between serum and meconium biomarkers of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and their association with infant and early childhood growth
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Braun, Joe Mathias. Relationships Between Serum and Meconium Biomarkers of Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Their Association with Infant and Early Childhood Growth. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010. https://doi.org/10.17615/jbwz-mc71APA
Braun, J. (2010). Relationships between serum and meconium biomarkers of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and their association with infant and early childhood growth. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://doi.org/10.17615/jbwz-mc71Chicago
Braun, Joe Mathias. 2010. Relationships Between Serum and Meconium Biomarkers of Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Their Association with Infant and Early Childhood Growth. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://doi.org/10.17615/jbwz-mc71- Last Modified
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Braun, Joe Mathias
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
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- Prenatal active and secondhand tobacco smoke exposures remain a prevalent and preventable risk factor for adverse infant and childhood health outcomes. I used a prospective birth cohort of 389 mothers and their infants who were followed from early pregnancy to three years of age to address two specific aims. First, I validated the utility of meconium as a biological matrix to quantify prenatal tobacco smoke exposure. Second, I examined the association between prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and early childhood body mass index (BMI). I validated the utility of meconium tobacco smoke metabolites as biomarkers of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure against self-report and serum cotinine biomarkers of tobacco smoke exposure. I also estimated and compared associations between meconium and serum metabolite concentrations and infant birth weight. Nicotine, cotinine, and trans-3'-hydroxycotinine were detected in the majority of meconium samples (57-80%). Meconium tobacco smoke metabolite concentrations were positively associated with self-report and serum cotinine biomarkers of tobacco smoke exposure. The association between meconium metabolite concentrations and infant birth weight was similar to serum cotinine associations. Meconium is a promising biological matrix to quantify prenatal environmental toxicant exposure; however, meconium tobacco smoke metabolite concentrations did not provide additional information that could be obtained from a single serum cotinine measurement. In the second aim, prenatal tobacco smoke exposures were quantified using maternal self-report and serum cotinine biomarkers. BMI was calculated from weight and height measurements taken at birth, 4 weeks, and 1, 2, and 3 years of age. During pregnancy, 51% of women had cotinine levels consistent with SHS exposure and 10% had cotinine concentrations indicative of active smoking. After adjustment for confounders, both self-report and serum biomarkers of active tobacco smoke exposures were associated with elevated BMI at 2 and 3 years of age. Estimates of association between self-reported SHS exposures and BMI were attenuated towards the null relative to serum cotinine concentration associations. These results suggest that prenatal tobacco smoke exposures may play a role in the development of overweight in early childhood and that self-reported prenatal SHS exposures are non-differentially misclassified, resulting in biased estimates of association with childhood BMI.
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- "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Epidemiology."
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- Daniels, Julie
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- March 18, 2013
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