Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lind, Dorte Vesterholm
• Priskorn, Lærke
• Lassen, Tina Harmer
• Nielsen, Flemming
• Kyhl, Henriette Boye
• Kristensen, David Møbjerg
• Christesen, Henrik Thybo
• Jørgensen, Jan Steener
• Grandjean, Philippe
• Jensen, Tina Kold

Titel

Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and anogenital distance at 3 months of age in a Danish mother-child cohort

Ist Teil von

• Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.), 2017-03, Vol.68, p.200-206

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the Odense child cohort, serum concentrations of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) were measured in 638 pregnant women. Birth weight, head and abdominal circumferences and gestational age were determined. Anogenital distance (AGD), the distance from the anus to the genital organs, and penile width were measured 3 months after expected date of birth in 511 children. PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA and PFDA were associated with a decreased AGD in girls (p-trend<0.05) after adjusting for age and weight-for-age standard deviation score. PFOS in the highest quartile was associated with a 2.8mm (95% confidence intervals −4.5; −1.1) reduction in AGD in girls. No such tendencies were seen in boys. However, a tendency toward increased birth weight in girls and reduced birth weight in boys suggests that sex-dimorphic effects may occur from endocrine disrupting effects of these substances.