Autor: |
Voth-Gaeddert LE; a Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering , Missouri University of Science and Technology , Rolla , MO , USA., Stoker M; b Independent Researcher , Quetzaltenango , Guatemala., Torres O; c Laboratorio Diagnostico Molecular , Guatemala City , Guatemala., Oerther DB; a Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering , Missouri University of Science and Technology , Rolla , MO , USA. |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Zdroj: |
International journal of environmental health research [Int J Environ Health Res] 2018 Jun; Vol. 28 (3), pp. 280-292. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Apr 28. |
DOI: |
10.1080/09603123.2018.1468424 |
Abstrakt: |
Aflatoxin exposure has been proposed to affect child height-for-age. The following hypothesized associations were tested in Guatemala: (1) aflatoxin (B 1 , B 2 , G 1 , G 2 ) exposure and environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and child height-for-age z-score; and (2) aflatoxin exposures and subsequent symptoms of aflatoxins. Maize consumption data, health data, and samples of maize from households were collected from mothers and their children - under five - in October 2016 (n = 320) and February 2017 (n = 120). Maize samples were tested for aflatoxin levels and maize consumption data were used to compute an aflatoxin exposure level. Results suggest that there was a significant negative correlation between the putative aflatoxin exposure level and child height-for-age z-score (-0.073, p = 0.030), but not for EED. Furthermore, aflatoxin exposure was significantly correlated with aflatoxin symptoms only at the same time point (0.123, p = 0.026). These results support the potential need for engineered solutions to household aflatoxin transmission problems in rural communities of Guatemala. |
Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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