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| Title |
Parental exposures to occupational asthmagens and risk of autism spectrum disorder in a Danish population-based case-control study
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| Published in |
Environmental Health, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12940-017-0230-8 |
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| Authors |
Alison B. Singer, Igor Burstyn, Malene Thygesen, Preben Bo Mortensen, M. Daniele Fallin, Diana E. Schendel |
| Abstract |
Environmental exposures and immune conditions during pregnancy could influence development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring. However, few studies have examined immune-triggering exposures in relation to ASD. We evaluated the association between parental workplace exposures to risk factors for asthma ("asthmagens") and ASD. We conducted a population-based case-control study in the Danish population using register linkage. Our study population consisted of 11,869 ASD cases and 48,046 controls born from 1993 through 2007. Cases were identified by ICD-10 codes in the Danish Psychiatric Central Register. ASD cases and controls were linked to parental Danish International Standard Classification of Occupations (DISCO-88) job codes. Parental occupational asthmagen exposure was estimated by linking DISCO-88 codes to an asthma-specific job-exposure matrix. Our maternal analyses included 6706 case mothers and 29,359 control mothers employed during the pregnancy period. We found a weak inverse association between ASD and any maternal occupational asthmagen exposure, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates (adjusted OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86-0.99). In adjusted analyses, including 7647 cases and 31,947 controls with employed fathers, paternal occupational asthmagen exposure was not associated with ASD (adjusted OR: 0.98, 95% CI: 0.92-1.05). We found a weak inverse association between maternal occupational asthmagen exposure and ASD, and a null association between paternal occupational exposure and ASD. We suggest that unmeasured confounding negatively biased the estimate, but that this unmeasured confounding is likely not strong enough to bring the effect above the null. Overall, our results were consistent with no positive association between parental asthmagen exposure and ASD in the children. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 80 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 14 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 18 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 21% |
| Psychology | 10 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 23 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 September 2017.
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#3,001,518
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#538
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#53,214
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#18
of 38 outputs
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