Urinary bisphenol-A levels in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
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Tolga İnce
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Aylin Balcı
Abstract
Background:
Bisphenol-A (BPA) is one of the most abundantly produced chemicals globally. Concerns have been raised about BPA’s possible role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). The main aim of the current study was to evaluate the possible association between BPA exposure and T1DM. The second aim was to investigate children’s possible BPA exposure routes in Turkey.
Methods:
A total of 100 children aged between 5 and 18 years including 50 children with T1DM and 50 healthy children were included. Urinary BPA levels of all children were measured using high-performance liquid chromatography. Mothers of children enrolled in the study were also requested to complete a survey that included questions on the sociodemographic characteristics, medical history and possible BPA exposure routes of their children.
Results:
In the T1DM group, urinary BPA levels were slightly higher compared to the control group, but this difference was not significant (p=0.510). However, there was an inverse relationship between current urinary BPA levels and birth weight. It was found that the use of plastic kettles and the consumption of dairy products in plastic boxes significantly increased the urinary BPA concentrations in all subjects.
Conclusions:
Although there was no significant association between urinary BPA levels and T1DM, we found an inverse relationship between current urinary BPA levels and birth weight. This finding might be important for prenatal exposure, and further prospective research must be conducted. Also, the use of plastic kettles, which has not been mentioned much in the literature before, was found to be an important exposure route for BPA.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatric Endocrinology for helping us to take urine samples from children with T1DM.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Urinary bisphenol-A levels in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
- The relationship between metabolic syndrome, cytokines and physical activity in obese youth with and without Prader-Willi syndrome
- Association of anthropometric measures and cardio-metabolic risk factors in normal-weight children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-V study
- The effect of obesity and insulin resistance on macular choroidal thickness in a pediatric population as assessed by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography
- Hereditary 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets (HVDRR): clinical heterogeneity and long-term efficacious management of eight patients from four unrelated Arab families with a loss of function VDR mutation
- Long-term thyroid disorders in pediatric survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation after chemotherapy-only conditioning
- Screening for autoimmune thyroiditis and celiac disease in minority children with type 1 diabetes
- Resistance exercise alone improves muscle strength in growth hormone deficient males in the transition phase
- Sequential measurements of IGF-I serum concentrations in adolescents with Laron syndrome treated with recombinant human IGF-I (rhIGF-I)
- Symptomatic Rathke cleft cyst in paediatric patients – clinical presentations, surgical treatment and postoperative outcomes – an analysis of 38 cases
- Molecular genetics of tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency in Chinese patients
- Single center experience of biotinidase deficiency: 259 patients and six novel mutations
- Next-generation sequencing as a second-tier diagnostic test for newborn screening
- Case Reports
- Thyroid storm after choking
- Three new Brazilian cases of 17α-hydroxylase deficiency: clinical, molecular, hormonal, and treatment features
- Diazoxide toxicity in a child with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy: mixed hyperglycemic hyperosmolar coma and ketoacidosis
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