Title
Total Urinary Arsenic and Inorganic Arsenic Concentrations and Birth Outcomes in Pregnant Women of Tacna, Peru: A Cross-Sectional Study
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Abstract
Inorganic arsenic exposure has been linked to the development of several health conditions, including adverse birth outcomes, and around 150 million of people worldwide are exposed to levels above the WHO suggested limit of 10 μg/L. A recent risk assessment in pregnant women of Tacna, of this same population performed by our group, found that 70.25% were exposed to arsenic concentrations in drinking water ≥ 25 μg/L. The present study aimed to evaluate the relationship between prenatal total urinary arsenic (U-tAs) and inorganic arsenic (U-iAs) with adverse birth outcomes. A total of 147 pregnant women from the province of Tacna, Peru, during February–March, 2019, were evaluated for U-tAs and U-iAs exposure during their second trimester of pregnancy, while the birth records of their children were collected from the local hospital. The geometric mean U-tAs was 43.97 ± 25.88 μg/L (P50 22.30, range 5.99–181.94 μg/L) and U-iAs was 5.27 ± 2.91 μg/L. Controlling for maternal age, pre-pregnancy BMI, parity, mother’s education, and newborn sex, no relationship was observed between tertile of U-tAs and the birth outcomes considered, although we found an apparent but statistically non-significant dose–response relationship for small for gestational age 2.38% (95% CI 0.003, 0.16), versus 7.32% (95% CI 0.02, 0.21%), and versus 8.57% (95% CI 0.03, 0.25%). This finding requires further evaluation considering other factors such as metabolic arsenic species, additional maternal covariates, and ethnicity.
Start page
133
End page
140
Volume
13
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos Otras ciencias médicas Endocrinología, Metabolismo (incluyendo diabetes, hormonas)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85090112942
Source
Exposure and Health
ISSN of the container
24519766
Sponsor(s)
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NIH under Award Number for research Grant U01 TW0101 07. DBB was further supported by NIH Grant P30 ES019776. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Acknowledgements The authors thank Drs. Kyle Steenland, Maureen Lichtveld, Jeffrey Wickliffe, and Matthew Gribble for their support in the project. We thank Priya D?Souza and Parinya Panuwet for their laboratory support. The authors also thank the biologist Edwin Obando and Luis Lloja for providing us with the refrigerators necessary for sample storage, obstetrician Virginia Fern?ndez for helping us the follow-up of the pregnant women, the Medicine students Diana Lloja, Alonso Plata, Sujey G?mez and Paul Valeriano for the help in the project's field work, and the Red de Salud Tacna for providing us with the permits required.
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