Longitudinal Assessment of Prenatal, Perinatal, and Early-Life Aflatoxin B 1 Exposure in 828 Mother-Child Dyads from Bangladesh and Malawi.
Joshua W SmithAndrew J MatchadoLee S-F WuCharles D ArnoldSean M BurkeKenneth M MaletaPer AshornChristine P StewartSaijuddin ShaikhHasmot AliAlain B LabriqueKeith P WestParul ChristianKathryn G DeweyJohn D GroopmanKerry J SchulzePublished in: Current developments in nutrition (2022)
Among pregnant women, aflatoxin exposure was persistently high in Malawi, while lower and seasonal in Bangladesh. Infants were partially protected from exposure in utero and with exclusive breastfeeding, but exposures reached adult levels by 18-24 mo of age. The Bangladesh and Malawi trials are registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00860470 and NCT01239693.