Prenatal exposure to outdoor air pollution and child behavioral problems at school age in Japan
| Autor: | Midory Higa Diez, Yoko Kado, Saori Kashima, Satoshi Sanada, Takashi Yorifuji, Hiroyuki Doi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Pollution
Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Population Nitrogen Dioxide Air pollution 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan Pregnancy Environmental health Air Pollution Epidemiology Medicine Humans Sulfur Dioxide Longitudinal Studies education Child Prenatal exposure lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common lcsh:GE1-350 Problem Behavior education.field_of_study Air Pollutants School age child business.industry Odds ratio Confidence interval Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Female Particulate Matter business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Environment International, Vol 99, Iss, Pp 192-198 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1873-6750 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Recent studies suggest positive associations between prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and neurodevelopment of children, but evidence on the adverse effects of exposure to air pollution on child neurobehavioral development remains limited. We thus examined associations between prenatal exposure to outdoor air pollution and child behavioral problems at school age, using data from a nationwide population-based longitudinal survey in Japan, where participants were recruited in 2001 and are continuously followed. Methods: Suspended particulate matter (SPM), nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide concentrations during the 9 months before birth were obtained at municipality level and assigned to those participants born in the corresponding municipality. We analyzed data from singleton births with linked pollution data available (e.g., n = 33,911 for SPM). We used responses to survey questions about behavioral problems at age 8 years. We conducted multilevel logistic regression analysis, adjusting for individual and municipality-level variables. Results: Air pollution exposure during gestation was positively associated with risk for behavioral problems related to attention and delinquent or aggressive behavior. In the fully adjusted models, odds ratios following a one-interquartile-range increase in SPM were 1.06 (95% confidence interval: 1.01, 1.11) for interrupting others, 1.09 (1.03, 1.15) for failure to pay attention when crossing a street, 1.06 (1.01, 1.11) for lying, and 1.07 (1.02, 1.13) for causing public disturbance. Conclusions: Prenatal exposure to outdoor air pollution was associated with behavioral problems related to attention and delinquent or aggressive behavior at age 8 years in a nationally representative sample in Japan. Keywords: Air pollution, Behavior, Epidemiology, Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate matter, Sulfur dioxide |
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