Exposure to severe urban air pollution influences cognitive outcomes, brain volume and systemic inflammation in clinically healthy children |
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Authors: | Calderón-Garcidueñas Lilian Engle Randall Mora-Tiscareño Antonieta Styner Martin Gómez-Garza Gilberto Zhu Hongtu Jewells Valerie Torres-Jardón Ricardo Romero Lina Monroy-Acosta Maria E Bryant Christopher González-González Luis Oscar Medina-Cortina Humberto D'Angiulli Amedeo |
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Affiliation: | a Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico b The Center for Structural and Functional Neurosciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA c School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170, USA d Department of Psychiatry and Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA e Biostatistics, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA f Radiology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA g Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico h Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 |
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Abstract: | Exposure to severe air pollution produces neuroinflammation and structural brain alterations in children. We tested whether patterns of brain growth, cognitive deficits and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) are associated with exposures to severe air pollution. Baseline and 1 year follow-up measurements of global and regional brain MRI volumes, cognitive abilities (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, WISC-R), and serum inflammatory mediators were collected in 20 Mexico City (MC) children (10 with white matter hyperintensities, WMH+, and 10 without, WMH−) and 10 matched controls (CTL) from a low polluted city. There were significant differences in white matter volumes between CTL and MC children - both WMH+ and WMH− - in right parietal and bilateral temporal areas. Both WMH− and WMH+ MC children showed progressive deficits, compared to CTL children, on the WISC-R Vocabulary and Digit Span subtests. The cognitive deficits in highly exposed children match the localization of the volumetric differences detected over the 1 year follow-up, since the deficits observed are consistent with impairment of parietal and temporal lobe functions. Regardless of the presence of prefrontal WMH, Mexico City children performed more poorly across a variety of cognitive tests, compared to CTL children, thus WMH+ is likely only partially identifying underlying white matter pathology. Together these findings reveal that exposure to air pollution may perturb the trajectory of cerebral development and result in cognitive deficits during childhood. |
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Keywords: | Air pollution Brain MRI Children Cognition Systemic inflammation Particulate matter White matter hyperintensities White matter volume |
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