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.

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