Title | Urinary phthalate metabolites and heart rate variability: A panel study. | ||
Author | Zhang, Ziqian; Liu, Miao; Zhao, Lei; Liu, Linlin; Guo, Wenting; Yu, Jie; Yang, Huihua; Lai, Xuefeng; Zhang, Xiaomin; Yang, Liangle | ||
Journal | Environ Pollut | Publication Year/Month | 2023-Aug |
PMID | 37142210 | PMCID | -N/A- |
Affiliation + expend | 1.Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Key Laboratory of Environment & Health, Ministry of Education, and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. |
Phthalates exposure is linked with cardiovascular disease. Decreased heart rate variability (HRV) is an early indicator of cardiac autonomic imbalance. We conducted a longitudinal panel study in 127 Chinese adults with 3 repeated visits to explore the associations of individual and mixtures of phthalates exposure with HRV. We quantified 10 urinary phthalate metabolites by gas chromatograph-tandem mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) and 6 HRV indices by 3-channel digital Holter monitors. Linear mixed-effect (LME) models and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) models were separately implemented to evaluate the associations. After multivariate adjustments, we found that urinary mono-ethyl phthalate (MEP), mono-iso-butyl phthalate (MiBP), and mono-n-butyl phthalate (MBP) at lag 0 day were inversely associated with low-frequency power (LF) or total power (TP) (all P-FDR <0.05). In mixture analysis, we observed negative overall associations of phthalate mixtures at lag 0 day with LF or TP, and MiBP was the major contributor. Moreover, stratified analysis suggested that the inverse relationships of MiBP at lag 0 day with LF and TP were more prominent in subjects aged >50 years (all P(interaction) < 0.01). Our findings revealed that exposure to individual and mixtures of phthalates, especially MiBP, were related to decreased HRV.