ArticleEnvironmental research2019
Blood pressure after a heightened pesticide spray period among children living in agricultural communities in Ecuador.
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- Cardiometabolic risk factors in South American children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Association Between Purchase of Organic Food and Hypertension Among US Adults: NHANES 2007-2010.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Soil health to human health: impacts of soil contaminants on cardio-neurological health and clinical outcomes: a narrative review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Relationships of residential distance to greenhouse floriculture and organophosphate, pyrethroid, and neonicotinoid urinary metabolite concentration in Ecuadorian Adolescents.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Associations of PFAS and pesticides with lung function changes from adolescence to young adulthood in the ESPINA study.International journal of hygiene and environmental health · 2025Article
- The effect of fiber intake on the association of pesticide exposure and hypertension: a population-level study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Mapping Potential Population-Level Pesticide Exposures in Ecuador Using a Modular and Scalable Geospatial Strategy.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Latin American and the Caribbean Populations: A Scoping Review.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- The association between organophosphate insecticides and blood pressure dysregulation: NHANES 2013-2014.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- Associations Between Household Pesticide Exposure, Smoking and Hypertension.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionAgricultural pesticide spray periods increase the pesticide exposure potential of children living nearby and growing evidence indicates that they may affect children's health. We examined the association of time following a heightened agricultural production period, the Mother's Day flower harvest (May), with children's blood pressure (BP).
methodsWe included cross-sectional information of 313 children ages 4-9 years in Ecuadorian agricultural communities (the ESPINA study). Examinations occurred during a period of low flower production, but within 63-100 days (mean = 81.5, SD = 10.9) following the Mother's Day harvest. BP was measured twice using a pediatric sphygmomanometer and BP percentiles appropriate for age, gender and height were calculated.
resultsParticipants were 51% male, 1.6% hypertensive and 7.7% had elevated BP. The mean (SD) BP percentiles were: systolic: 51.7 (23.9); diastolic: 33.3 (20.3). There was an inverse relationship between of time after the spray season with percentiles of systolic (difference [β] per 10.9 days after the harvest: -4.3 [95%CI: -6.9, -1.7]) and diastolic BP (β: -7.5 [-9.6, -5.4]) after adjusting for race, heart rate and BMI-for-age z-score. A curvilinear association with diastolic BP was observed. For every 10.9 days that a child was examined sooner after the harvest, the OR of elevated BP/hypertension doubled (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.3, 3.1). Time after the harvest was positively associated with acetylcholinesterase.
conclusionsChildren examined sooner after a heightened pesticide spray period had higher blood pressure and pesticide exposure markers than children examined later. Further studies with multiple exposure-outcome measures across pesticide spray periods are needed.
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