Alicia Guillien, Rémy Slama, Sandra Andrusaityte, Maribel Casas, Leda Chatzi, Montserrat de Castro, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, Berit Granum, Regina Grazuleviciene, Jordi Julvez, Norun Krog, Johanna Lepeule, Léa Maitre, Rosemary McEachan, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Bente Oftedal, Jose Urquiza, Marina Vafeiadi, John Wright, Martine Vrijheid, Xavier Basagaña, Valérie Siroux
INTRODUCTION: Previous studies identified some environmental and lifestyle factors independently associated with children respiratory health, but few focused on exposure mixture effects. This study aimed at identifying, in pregnancy and in childhood, combined urban and lifestyle environment profiles associated with respiratory health in children. METHODS: This study is based on the European Human Early-Life Exposome (HELIX) project, combining six birth cohorts. Associations between profiles of pregnancy (38 exposures) and childhood (84 exposures) urban and lifestyle factors, identified by clustering analysis, and respiratory health were estimated by regression models adjusted for confounders...
November 28, 2023: Environmental Research