ArticleEnvironmental research2022
Maternal serum persistent organic pollutant exposure and offspring diagnosed ADHD in a national birth cohort.
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- A Systematic Review of Algorithms for Identifying Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Outcomes.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2025Pooled it
- Maternal exposure to pesticides and autism or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders in offspring: A meta-analysis.Chemosphere · 2023Pooled it
- Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticides as Drivers of Human Disease: Mechanistic Toxicology and Life-Course Health Effects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and emotional and behavioral outcomes from early childhood to adolescence: Rhea Cohort Study in Crete, Greece.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Exploring autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) in children exposed to polybrominated biphenyl.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Prenatal organochlorine pollutant exposure and risk of schizophrenia in a national birth cohort.Neurotoxicology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence implicates environmental factors in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) risk. Prenatal exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the pesticide metabolite p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (DDE) have been linked to lower cognitive ability, increased impulsivity, and attention related deficits in the offspring. However, information on the relationship of these exposures to the risk of clinically diagnosed ADHD is limited.
objectivesTo determine whether prenatal maternal levels of PCBs or DDE are associated with ADHD diagnosis in the offspring.
methodsThe investigation was conducted in the Finnish Prenatal Study of ADHD (FIPS-ADHD), a case-control study nested in a national birth cohort. Cases were born in 1998 or 1999 and diagnosed with ADHD (ICD-9 314x or ICD-10 F90. x) according to the national Care Register for Health Care. Each case was individually matched to a control on sex, date, and place of birth. PCB congeners (PCB 74, 99, 118, 138, 153, 156, 170, 180, 183, 187) and DDE were quantified from archived prenatal maternal sera from 359 matched case-control pairs using gas chromatography - high triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. Maternal total PCBs were quantified as the sum of concentrations of the measured congeners. Associations with ADHD were examined using conditional logistic regression.
resultsMaternal PCB or DDE levels greater than the 75th percentiles of the control distributions showed no evidence of association with offspring ADHD (PCBs: adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.63, 1.60), p = 0.98; DDE: aOR = 1.13, 95% CI = 0.71, 1.81; p = 0.60). Maternal levels of either pollutant dichotomized at the 90th percentile or considered as a continuous variable also did not show evidence for association with offspring ADHD diagnosis. DISCUSSION: This study did not find evidence for association of maternal prenatal levels of PCBs or DDE with clinical diagnosis of offspring ADHD; however, this does not rule out the possibility of an impact on subclinical phenotypes.
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