Table_2_Network Analysis to Identify Communities Among Multiple Exposure Biomarkers Measured at Birth in Three Flemish General Population Samples.docx

Introduction: Humans are exposed to multiple environmental chemicals via different sources resulting in complex real-life exposure patterns. Insight into these patterns is important for applications such as linkage to health effects and (mixture) risk assessment. By providing internal exposure levels of (metabolites of) chemicals, biomonitoring studies can provide snapshots of exposure patterns and factors that drive them. Presentation of biomonitoring data in networks facilitates the detection of such exposure patterns and allows for the systematic comparison of observed exposure patterns bet... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Ilse Ottenbros (10121801)
Eva Govarts (541876)
Erik Lebret (388751)
Roel Vermeulen (68721)
Greet Schoeters (409810)
Jelle Vlaanderen (556852)
Dokumenttyp: Dataset
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Schlagwörter: Mental Health Nursing / Midwifery / Nursing not elsewhere classified / Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health / Aged Health Care / Care for Disabled / Community Child Health / Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety / Epidemiology / Family Care / Health and Community Services / Health Care Administration / Health Counselling / Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance) / Health Promotion / Preventive Medicine / Primary Health Care / Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified / Nanotoxicology / Health and Safety / Medicine / Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy / network analysis / human biomonitoring / multiple exposure biomarkers / mixtures / risk assessment / community detection
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.590038.s007

Introduction: Humans are exposed to multiple environmental chemicals via different sources resulting in complex real-life exposure patterns. Insight into these patterns is important for applications such as linkage to health effects and (mixture) risk assessment. By providing internal exposure levels of (metabolites of) chemicals, biomonitoring studies can provide snapshots of exposure patterns and factors that drive them. Presentation of biomonitoring data in networks facilitates the detection of such exposure patterns and allows for the systematic comparison of observed exposure patterns between datasets and strata within datasets. Methods: We demonstrate the use of network techniques in human biomonitoring data from cord blood samples collected in three campaigns of the Flemish Environment and Health Studies (FLEHS) (sampling years resp. 2002–2004, 2008–2009, and 2013–2014). Measured biomarkers were multiple organochlorine compounds, PFAS and metals. Comparative network analysis (CNA) was conducted to systematically compare networks between sampling campaigns, smoking status during pregnancy, and maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Results: Network techniques offered an intuitive approach to visualize complex correlation structures within human biomonitoring data. The identification of groups of highly connected biomarkers, “communities,” within these networks highlighted which biomarkers should be considered collectively in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies or in the design of toxicological mixture studies. Network analyses demonstrated in our example to which extent biomarker networks and its communities changed across the sampling campaigns, smoking status during pregnancy, and maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Conclusion: Network analysis is a data-driven and intuitive screening method when dealing with multiple exposure biomarkers, which can easily be upscaled to high dimensional HBM datasets, and can inform mixture risk assessment approaches.