孟加拉国儿童接触金属混合物与端粒长度

Exposure to metal mixtures and telomere length in Bangladeshi children.

作者信息

Farzan Shohreh F, Niu Zhongzheng, Guo Fangqi, Shahriar Mohammad, Kibriya Muhammad G, Jasmine Farzana, Sarwar Golam, Jackson Brian P, Ahsan Habibul, Argos Maria

机构信息

Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States.

UChicago Research Bangladesh, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh.

出版信息

Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Jan 8;194(1):35-43. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae181.

Abstract

Telomere length is associated with chronic diseases and, in younger populations, may represent a biomarker of disease susceptibility. As growing evidence suggests that environmental factors, including metals, may impact telomere length. We investigated the association between 17 metals measured in toenail samples and leukocyte relative telomere length (RTL), among 472 5- to 7-year-old children enrolled in the Bangladesh Environmental Research in Children's Health (BiRCH) cohortIn single-exposure linear regression models, a doubling of arsenic (As) and mercury (Hg) (μg/g) were associated with a -0.21 (95% CI, -0.032 to -0.010; P = .0005) and -0.017 (95% CI, -0.029 to -0.004; P = .006) difference in RTL, respectively. In Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) mixture models, the overall metal mixture was inversely associated with RTL (P-for-trend < 0.001). Negative associations with RTL were observed with both log2-As and log2-Hg, while an inverted U-shaped association was observed for log2-zinc (Zn) with RTL. We found little evidence of interaction among metals. Sex-stratification identified stronger associations of the overall mixture and log2-As with RTL among females compared to males. Our study suggests that As and Hg may independently influence RTL in mid-childhood. Further studies are needed to investigate potential long-term impacts of metal-associated telomere shortening in childhood on health outcomes in adult life.

摘要

端粒长度与慢性疾病相关,在较年轻人群中,可能代表疾病易感性的生物标志物。越来越多的证据表明,包括金属在内的环境因素可能会影响端粒长度。我们在参与孟加拉国儿童健康环境研究(BiRCH)队列的472名5至7岁儿童中,调查了趾甲样本中检测的17种金属与白细胞相对端粒长度(RTL)之间的关联。在单暴露线性回归模型中,砷(As)和汞(Hg)(μg/g)含量翻倍分别与RTL差异-0.21(95%CI,-0.032至-0.010;P = 0.0005)和-0.017(95%CI,-0.029至-0.004;P = 0.006)相关。在贝叶斯核机器回归(BKMR)混合模型中,总体金属混合物与RTL呈负相关(趋势P值<0.001)。观察到log2-As和log2-Hg与RTL均呈负相关,而log2-锌(Zn)与RTL呈倒U形相关。我们几乎没有发现金属之间存在相互作用的证据。按性别分层发现,与男性相比,总体混合物和log2-As与女性RTL的关联更强。我们的研究表明,As和Hg可能独立影响儿童中期的RTL。需要进一步研究来调查儿童期金属相关端粒缩短对成年后健康结果的潜在长期影响。

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