首页|Estimating personal exposures to household air pollution and plastic garbage burning among adolescent girls in Jalapa, Guatemala

Estimating personal exposures to household air pollution and plastic garbage burning among adolescent girls in Jalapa, Guatemala

扫码查看
原文链接
  • NETL
  • NSTL
Waste collection services are uncommon in rural areas of low-resource countries, causing waste accumulationand subsequent dumping and burning of garbage. Air pollution from household garbage burning, includingplastics, has been observed in Jalapa, Guatemala in addition to household air pollution (HAP) from cooking.Adolescent girls often help with these cooking and household tasks, but little is known about their exposures. Wecharacterized 24-h exposures to HAP and household garbage burning in adolescent girls by measuring fineparticulate matter (PM_(2.5)), black carbon (BC), urinary biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),bisphenol A (BPA), and phthalates. We recruited 60 girls between 13 and 17 years of age who helped withcooking activities and lived with participants of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial.We recruited n = 30 girls each from the control (wood-burning stove) and intervention (liquefied petroleum gasstove) arms. We also measured real-time kitchen concentrations of BC in 20 homes (33%). PM_(2.5) and BC weremeasured in n = 21 control and n = 20 intervention participants. Median concentrations of personal PM_(2.5) andBC and kitchen BC were lower (p < 0.05) in the intervention arm by 87%, 80%, and 85%, respectively. PAHmetabolite concentrations were lower (p < 0.001) for all nine metabolites in intervention (n = 26) compared tocontrol participants (n = 29). Urinary BPA concentrations were 66% higher in participants who reported usingcosmetics (p = 0.02), and phthalate concentrations were 63% higher in participants who had reported using hairproducts during the sample period (p = 0.05). Our results suggest that gas stoves can reduce HAP exposuresamong adolescents who are not primary cooks at home. Biomarkers of plastic exposure were not associated withintervention status, but some were elevated compared to age- and sex-matched participants of the NationalHealth and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Exposure assessmentHousehold air pollutionEndocrine disrupting compoundsBiomonitoringPlastic pollution

Katherine A. Kearns、Luke P. Naeher、John P. McCracken、Dana Boyd Barr、Eri Saikawa、Mayari Hengstermann、Erick Mollinedo、Parinya Panuwet、Volha Yakimavets、Grace E. Lee、Lisa M. Thompson

展开 >

University of Georgia, Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA

University of Georgia, Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA,Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA,Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

展开 >

2024

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140705

Chemosphere

Chemosphere

ISSN：0045-6535
年,卷(期)：2024.348(Jan.)