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Postnatal BPA is associated with increasing executive function difficulties in preschool children.

Gillian England-MasonJiaying LiuJonathan W MartinGerald F GiesbrechtNicole LetourneauDeborah Deweynull null
Published in: Pediatric research (2020)
Higher concentrations of maternal BPA at 3-month postpartum were associated with increasing difficulties in inhibitory self-control and emergent metacognition from age 2 to 4 in girls, but not boys. Prenatal BPA and prenatal/postnatal BPS were not significant predictors of changes in executive function in boys and girls. The current study extends previous research to show that maternal postnatal BPA could also impact child executive function. Due to the ubiquity of BPA exposure among breastfeeding women, the current findings suggest that additional precautions may be needed to protect infants' neurodevelopment from indirect exposure to BPA.
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