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Air Pollution, Neonatal Immune Responses, and Potential Joint Effects of Maternal Depression

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  • Jill Hahn

    (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA)

  • Diane R. Gold

    (Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA)

  • Brent A. Coull

    (Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA)

  • Marie C. McCormick

    (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA)

  • Patricia W. Finn

    (Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA)

  • David L. Perkins

    (Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA)

  • Sheryl L. Rifas Shiman

    (Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA)

  • Emily Oken

    (Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA)

  • Laura D. Kubzansky

    (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA)

Abstract

Prenatal maternal exposure to air pollution may cause adverse health effects in offspring, potentially through altered immune responses. Maternal psychosocial distress can also alter immune function and may increase gestational vulnerability to air pollution exposure. We investigated whether prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with altered immune responses in cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMCs) and potential modification by maternal depression in 463 women recruited in early pregnancy (1999–2001) into the Project Viva longitudinal cohort. We estimated black carbon (BC), fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), residential proximity to major roadways, and near-residence traffic density, averaged over pregnancy. Women reported depressive symptoms in mid-pregnancy (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) and depression history by questionnaire. Immune responses were assayed by concentrations of three cytokines (IL-6, IL-10, and TNF-α), in unstimulated or stimulated (phytohemagglutinin (PHA), cockroach extract (Bla g 2), house dust mite extract (Der f 1)) CBMCs. Using multivariable linear or Tobit regression analyses, we found that CBMCs production of IL-6, TNF-a, and IL-10 were all lower in mothers exposed to higher levels of PM 2.5 during pregnancy. A suggestive but not statistically significant pattern of lower cord blood cytokine concentrations from ever (versus never) depressed women exposed to PM 2.5 , BC, or traffic was also observed and warrants further study.

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  • Jill Hahn & Diane R. Gold & Brent A. Coull & Marie C. McCormick & Patricia W. Finn & David L. Perkins & Sheryl L. Rifas Shiman & Emily Oken & Laura D. Kubzansky, 2021. "Air Pollution, Neonatal Immune Responses, and Potential Joint Effects of Maternal Depression," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(10), pages 1-16, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:10:p:5062-:d:552484
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