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Maternal Exposure to Bisphenol-A and Fetal Growth Restriction: A Case-Referent Study
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Maternal Exposure to Bisphenol-A and Fetal Growth Restriction: A Case-Referent Study

Igor Burstyn, Jonathan W Martin, Sanjay Beesoon, Fiona Bamforth, Qiaozhi Li, Yutaka Yasui and Nicola M Cherry
International journal of environmental research and public health, v 10(12), pp 7001-7014
Dec 2013
PMID: 24336026
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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10127001View
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Abstract

birth weight epidemiology BPA small for gestation age endocrine disruption
We conducted a case-referent study of the effect of exposure to bisphenol-A on fetal growth in utero in full-term, live-born singletons in Alberta, Canada. Newborns <10 percentile of expected weight for gestational age and sex were individually matched on sex, maternal smoking and maternal age to referents with weight appropriate to gestational age. Exposure of the fetus to bisphenol-A was estimated from maternal serum collected at 15–16 weeks of gestation. We pooled sera across subjects for exposure assessment, stratified on case-referent status and sex. Individual 1:1 matching was maintained in assembling 69 case and 69 referent pools created from 550 case-referent pairs. Matched pools had an equal number of aliquots from individual women. We used an analytical strategy conditioning on matched set and total pool-level values of covariates to estimate individual-level effects. Pools of cases and referents had identical geometric mean bisphenol-A concentrations (0.5 ng/mL) and similar geometric standard deviations (2.3–2.5). Mean difference in concentration between matched pools was 0 ng/mL, standard deviation: 1 ng/mL. Stratification by sex and control for confounding did not suggest bisphenol-A increased fetal growth restriction. Our analysis does not provide evidence to support the hypothesis that bisphenol-A contributes to fetal growth restriction in full-term singletons.

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