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Titre :
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Chlordecone Exposure, Length of Gestation, and Risk of Preterm Birth (2014)
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Auteurs :
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Philippe KADHEL ;
Christine MONFORT ;
Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Recherche sur la Santé L'Environnement et Travail (Rennes, France) ;
Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Recherche sur la Santé L'Environnement et Travail (Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe) ;
Nathalie COSTET ;
Florence ROUGET ;
Université de Rennes 1 (Rennes, FRA) ;
Jean-Pierre THOME ;
Luc Multigner ;
Sylvaine Cordier
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of epidemiology (vol. 179, n° 5, mars 2014)
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Pagination :
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536-544
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Exposition
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Grossesse risque
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Grossesse
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Facteur risque
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Risque
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Prématurité
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France
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Antilles
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Pesticide
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Epidémiologie
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Europe
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Amérique
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Amérique centrale
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS qm8DR0xo. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Persistent organic pollutants have not been conclusively associated with length of gestation or with preterm birth. Chlordecone is an organochlorine pesticide that has been extensively used to control the banana root borer population in the French West Indies. Data from the Timoun Mother-Child Cohort Study conducted in Guadeloupe between 2004 and 2007 were used to examine the associations of chlordecone concentrations in maternal plasma with the length of gestation and the rate preterm birth in 818 pregnant women. Data were analyzed using multivariate linear regression for length of gestation and a Cox model for preterm birth. The median plasma chlordecone concentration was 0.39 mug/L (interquartile range, 0.18-0.83). No correlation was observed with plasma concentrations of p, p'-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (p=0.017) or polychlorinated biphenyl 153 (p=-0.016), the other main organochlorine compounds detected. A 1-log10 increase in chlordecone concentration was associated with a decreased length of gestation (-0.27 weeks ; 95% confidence interval : - 0.50, - 0.03) and an increased risk of preterm birth (60% ; 95% confidence interval : 10,130). These associations may result from the estrogen-like and progestin-like properties of chlordecone. These results are of public health relevance because of the prolonged persistence of chlordecone in the environment and the high background rate of preterm births in this population.
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