Trimester-specific prenatal heavy metal exposures and sex-specific postpartum size and growth.
Lena YaoLili LiuMing DongJinmei YangZhiqiang ZhaoJiabin ChenLijuan LvZhaoxia WuJin WangXin SunSteven SelfParveen BhattiPublished in: Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology (2022)
We have taken a comprehensive and novel approach to evaluating the impacts of prenatal heavy metal exposures on size and growth during early childhood. Our detailed analyses consider exposures to 15 different heavy metals at two time points during pregnancy, as well as multiple metrics of size and growth collected at birth and 1, 3 and 6 months of age.