Author, as appears in the article.: Gasull M; Castell C; Pallarès N; Miret C; Pumarega J; Téllez-Plaza M; López T; Salas-Salvadó J; Lee DH; Goday A; Porta M
Department: Bioquímica i Biotecnologia
URV's Author/s: Salas Salvadó, Jorge
Keywords: Persistent organic pollutants Metabolically healthy obese Metabolic syndrome Metabolic phenotype Human biomonitoring Health survey Environmental pollutants/toxicity Environmental exposure/adverse effects
Abstract: © The Author(s) 2017. Factors underlying metabolic phenotypes, such as the metabolically healthy but obese phenotype, remain unclear. Differences in metabolic phenotypes - particularly, among individuals with a similar body mass index - could be related to concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). To our knowledge, no studies have analyzed POPs and metabolic phenotypes in normal-weight persons. We investigated the relationships between serum concentrations of POPs and metabolic phenotypes in 860 normal-weight, overweight, and obese participants in the 2002 Catalan Health Interview Survey (Spain). POP concentrations were significantly higher in metabolically unhealthy than in metabolically healthy individuals. In models adjusting for body mass index and other confounders, hexachlorobenzene, ?-hexachlorocyclohexane, and polychlorinated biphenyls were associated with the unhealthy metabolic phenotype and metabolic syndrome. Among normal-weight individuals, the adjusted prevalence ratio of having an unhealthy phenotype for the upper category of the sum of orders of the 6 mentioned POPs (all individually associated with metabolic phenotypes) was 4.1 (95% confidence interval: 1.7, 10.0). Among overweight and obese individuals, the corresponding prevalence ratio for the sum of polychlorinated biphenyls was 1.4 (95% confidence interval: 1.0, 1.8). Our results supported the hypothesis that POP concentrations are associated with unhealthy metabolic phenotypes, not only in obese and overweight individuals but also (and probably more strongly) in normal-weight individuals.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Public, environmental & occupational health Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Nutrição Medicine (all) Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar General medicine Epidemiology Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Biotecnología
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 00029262
Author's mail: jordi.salas@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-2700-7459
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/187/3/494/3903147
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: American Journal Of Epidemiology. 187 (3): 494-506
APA: Gasull M; Castell C; Pallarès N; Miret C; Pumarega J; Téllez-Plaza M; López T; Salas-Salvadó J; Lee DH; Goday A; Porta M (2018). Blood Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Unhealthy Metabolic Phenotypes in Normal-Weight, Overweight, and Obese Individuals. American Journal Of Epidemiology, 187(3), 494-506. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx267
Article's DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx267
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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