School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China.
Department of Obstetrics, Jinan Maternity and Child Care Hospital, Jinan, Shandong 250001, China.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2024 Aug;281:116663. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116663. Epub 2024 Jul 3.
Biological characteristics of pregnant women during early pregnancy make them susceptible to both poor sleep quality and metal/metalloid exposure. However, the effects of metal(loid) exposure on sleep quality in pregnant women remain unknown and unexplored. We aimed to examine the relationship between exposure to a mixture of metal(loid)s and pregnant women's sleep quality during early pregnancy. We recruited 493 pregnant women in the first trimester from prenatal clinics in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, and collected their spot urine samples. All urine specimens were assessed for eight metal(loid)s: arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), molybdenum (Mo), lead (Pb), selenium (Se), and mercury (Hg). We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to assess sleep quality. Linear regression, logistic regression, generalized additive models (GAMs), quantile g-computation, and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) were applied to investigate the relationships between metal(loid) exposure and sleep quality. The results from single metal(loid) models, quantile g-computation models, and BKMR models consistently suggested that Fe was positively related to women's sleep quality. Moreover, in the quantile g-computation models, As was the most critical contributor to the negative effects of the metal(loid) mixture on sleep quality. In addition, we found significant As by Fe interaction for scores of PSQI and habitual sleep efficiency, Pb by Fe interaction for PSQI and sleep latency, and Hg by Fe interaction for PSQI, suggesting the interactive effects of As and Fe, Pb and Fe, Hg and Fe on sleep quality and specific sleep components. Our study provided the first-hand evidence of the effects of metal(loid) exposure on pregnant women's sleep quality. The underlying mechanisms need to be explored in the future.
孕妇在孕早期的生物学特性使她们容易受到睡眠质量差和金属/类金属暴露的影响。然而,金属(类)暴露对孕妇睡眠质量的影响尚不清楚和未被探索。我们旨在研究暴露于金属(类)混合物与孕妇在孕早期睡眠质量之间的关系。我们从中国山东省济南市的产前诊所招募了 493 名孕早期孕妇,并收集了她们的点尿样。所有尿液样本均用于评估八种金属(类):砷(As)、镉(Cd)、铁(Fe)、锌(Zn)、钼(Mo)、铅(Pb)、硒(Se)和汞(Hg)。我们使用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数(PSQI)来评估睡眠质量。线性回归、逻辑回归、广义加性模型(GAMs)、分位数 g 计算和贝叶斯核机器回归(BKMR)被用于研究金属(类)暴露与睡眠质量之间的关系。来自单一金属(类)模型、分位数 g 计算模型和 BKMR 模型的结果一致表明,Fe 与女性的睡眠质量呈正相关。此外,在分位数 g 计算模型中,As 是金属(类)混合物对睡眠质量产生负面影响的最关键因素。此外,我们发现 PSQI 和习惯性睡眠效率的 As 与 Fe 交互作用、PSQI 的 Pb 与 Fe 交互作用和 PSQI 的 Hg 与 Fe 交互作用的显著差异,表明 As 和 Fe、Pb 和 Fe、Hg 和 Fe 对睡眠质量和特定睡眠成分的交互作用。我们的研究提供了金属(类)暴露对孕妇睡眠质量影响的第一手证据。未来需要探索其潜在机制。
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