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Parental exposures to occupational asthmagens and risk of autism spectrum disorder in a Danish population-based case-control study
Environmental health, v 16(1), pp 31-31
31 Mar 2017
PMCID: PMC5374665
PMID: 28359263
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Abstract
Background: Environmental exposures and immune conditions during pregnancy could influence development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring. However, few studies have examined immune-triggering exposures in relation to ASD. We evaluated the association between parental workplace exposures to risk factors for asthma ("asthmagens") and ASD.
Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study in the Danish population using register linkage. Our study population consisted of 11,869 ASD cases and 48,046 controls born from 1993 through 2007. Cases were identified by ICD-10 codes in the Danish Psychiatric Central Register. ASD cases and controls were linked to parental Danish International Standard Classification of Occupations (DISCO-88) job codes. Parental occupational asthmagen exposure was estimated by linking DISCO-88 codes to an asthma-specific job-exposure matrix.
Results: Our maternal analyses included 6706 case mothers and 29,359 control mothers employed during the pregnancy period. We found a weak inverse association between ASD and any maternal occupational asthmagen exposure, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates (adjusted OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86-0.99). In adjusted analyses, including 7647 cases and 31,947 controls with employed fathers, paternal occupational asthmagen exposure was not associated with ASD (adjusted OR: 0.98, 95% CI: 0.92-1.05).
Conclusions: We found a weak inverse association between maternal occupational asthmagen exposure and ASD, and a null association between paternal occupational exposure and ASD. We suggest that unmeasured confounding negatively biased the estimate, but that this unmeasured confounding is likely not strong enough to bring the effect above the null. Overall, our results were consistent with no positive association between parental asthmagen exposure and ASD in the children.
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- Title
- Parental exposures to occupational asthmagens and risk of autism spectrum disorder in a Danish population-based case-control study
- Creators
- Alison B. Singer - Aarhus UniversityIgor Burstyn - Drexel UniversityMalene Thygesen - Aarhus UniversityPreben Bo Mortensen - Aarhus UniversityM. Daniele Fallin - BloombergDiana E. Schendel - Aarhus University
- Publication Details
- Environmental health, v 16(1), pp 31-31
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH R155-2014-1724 / Lundbeck Foundation; Lundbeckfonden T32 ES007018 / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) T32ES007018 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 8576 / Autism Speaks Dennis Weatherstone Predoctoral Fellowship
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute; Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000397887700001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85016401207
- Other Identifier
- 991019168237904721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health