ArticleJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2019
Aflatoxin exposure in children living in Mirpur, Dhaka: data from MAL-ED companion study.
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- Level of exposure to aflatoxins during pregnancy and its association with adverse birth outcomes in Africa: a meta-analysis.International health · 2024Pooled it
- Human Biomonitoring of Mycotoxins in Blood, Plasma and Serum in Recent Years: A Review.Toxins · 2020Pooled it
- Evaluation of commercial maize hybrids for Aspergillus ear rot resistance and aflatoxin accumulation under natural and artificial inoculation conditions.Mycotoxin research · 2026Article
- Maternal Aflatoxin Exposure, Birth Outcomes, and Infant Growth in Uganda.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026Article
- Dietary diversity of adolescent girls living in an urban resource-poor setting of Dhaka city: results from Nutri-CAP study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
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- Aflatoxin Exposure in Immunocompromised Patients: Current State and Future Perspectives.Toxins · 2025Review
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- Urinary Aflatoxin M1 Concentration and Its Determinants in School-Age Children in Southern Ethiopia.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Assessment of Prenatal, Perinatal, and Early-Life Aflatoxin BCurrent developments in nutrition · 2022Article
- Occurrence of aflatoxin MMycotoxin research · 2021Article
- Aflatoxin exposure was not associated with childhood stunting: results from a birth cohort study in a resource-poor setting of Dhaka, Bangladesh.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Aflatoxin exposure and child nutrition: measuring anthropometric and long-bone growth over time in Nepal.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Article
- Assessment of Exposure to Mycotoxins in Spanish Children through the Analysis of Their Levels in Plasma Samples.Toxins · 2021Article
- Data Processing Thresholds for Abundance and Sparsity and Missed Biological Insights in an Untargeted Chemical Analysis of Blood Specimens for Exposomics.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Determination of aflatoxin MArchives of toxicology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Dietary exposure to aflatoxin is implicated in growth faltering of children. Despite the high burden of childhood stunting in urban Bangladesh, there are no data on long-term exposure to aflatoxin. This study aimed to explore aflatoxin exposure levels in a group of children followed longitudinally. The current study used data and biospecimens collected during 2010-2014 as part of the MAL-ED birth cohort study in an urban slum of Mirpur, Dhaka where children were followed from birth to 36 months. AFB1-lysine adduct concentrations were determined by isotope dilution mass spectrometry from plasma samples collected at 7, 15, 24, and 36 months of age. The limit of detection was 0.5 pg of AFB1-lys/mg albumin. In 744 plasma samples, the geometric mean of AFB1-lysine/mg albumin was 1.07 pg (range 0.04-123.5 pg/mg albumin). The proportion of children with detectable aflatoxin exposure was 10.1, 20.9, 17.9, and 61.7% for 7, 15, 24, and 36 months, respectively. Reduction in breastfeeding prevalence (80% at 24 months vs. 38% in 36 months) corresponded with the high-level detection of AFB1-lysine at the age of 36 months. AFB1-lysine concentrations were the highest at the end of monsoon. This study reveals that 62% of children in slum settlement were exposed to aflatoxin by the end of the third year of life. High aflatoxin exposure was detected at the end of rainy season and with the introduction of family food. These findings suggest interventions to ameliorate the problem of chronic aflatoxin exposure including childhood stunting.
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