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ArticleJournal of environmental health science & engineering2025

Prenatal exposure to metal mixture and birth weight; a Bayesian kernel machine regression analysis of two cohort studies in Japan and Iran.

Mohsen Vigeh, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Emiko Nishioka, Mansour Shamsipour, Takehisa Matsukawa, Masud Yunesian

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Mohsen VigehMaternal, Fetal and Neonatal Research Center, Immam Khomeini Complex Hospital, Family Health Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Bul., Tehran, 1419733141 Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-4511-5990
Kazuhito YokoyamaDepartment of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8421 Japan.
Emiko NishiokaDepartment of Maternal Nursing, Division of Nursing, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-8543 Japan.
Mansour ShamsipourDepartment of Research Methodology and Data Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Takehisa MatsukawaDepartment of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8421 Japan.
Masud YunesianDepartment of Research Methodology and Data Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Purpose: Potentially toxic metals can directly induce various adverse effects on reproductive organs or interrupt essential metals' physiological activities. Despite intensive efforts to reduce these metals in the environment, chronic and low-level exposure remains a public health problem. The present study aimed to investigate prenatal metal exposure, including arsenic (As), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), rubidium (Rb), selenium (Se), and zinc (Zn), effects on birth weight. Methods: We collected 579 blood samples before the 16th week of gestation from apparently healthy women with singleton pregnancy in Iran ( Results: Prenatal blood levels of As, Mn, Pb, and Zn were significantly higher, while Cu, Rb, and Se were significantly ( Conclusion: The study findings, using data from geographically diverse countries, suggest prenatal blood metal exposure as a potential risk factor for lower birth weight. Therefore, women of reproductive age should minimize encountering to potentially toxic metals as much as possible.

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Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR)Birth weightBlood metalMixture exposurePregnancy

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