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Prenatal exposure to toxic trace elements, including heavy metals, is an important public health concern. Few studies have assessed if individual and multiple trace elements simultaneously affect cardiac development. The current study evaluated the association between maternal blood lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), and selenium (Se) levels and congenital heart defects (CHDs) in offspring. This hospital-based case-control study included 112 case and 107 control infants. Maternal peripheral blood draw was made during gestational weeks 17-40 and used to determine trace element levels by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess associations and interactions between individual and multiple trace elements and fetal CHDs, adjusted for maternal age, parity, education, newborn gender, migrant, folic acid or multivitamin intake, cigarette smoking, maternal prepregnancy body mass index, and time of sample collection. Control participants had medians of 2.61 mu g/dL Pb, 1.76 mu g/L Cd, 3.57 mu g/L Cr, 896.56 mu g/L Cu, 4.17 mu g/L Hg, and 186.47 mu g/L Se in blood. In a model including all measured trace elements and adjusted for confounders, high levels of maternal Pb (OR = 12.09, 95% CI: 2.81, 51.97) and Se (OR = 0.25, 95% CI: 0.08, 0.77) were harmful and protective predictors of CHDs, respectively, with positive and negative interactions suggested for Cd with Pb and Se with Pb, respectively. Similar associations were detected for subgroups of CHDs, including conotruncal defects, septal defects, and right ventricle outflow tract obstruction. Our results suggest that even under the current standard for protecting human health (10 mu g/dL), Pb exposure poses an important health threat. These data can be used for developing interventions and identifying high-risk pregnancies.
- 出版日期2017-9
- 单位广东省心血管病研究所; 广东省人民医院
