Urinary Paraben Concentrations and Associations with the Periconceptional Urinary Metabolome: Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomics Analyses of Participants from the Early Pregnancy Study
Vollmar A, Rattray N, Cai Y, Jain A, Yan H, Deziel N, Calafat A, Wilcox A, Jukic A, Johnson C. Urinary Paraben Concentrations and Associations with the Periconceptional Urinary Metabolome: Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomics Analyses of Participants from the Early Pregnancy Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2023, 131: 097006. PMID: 37702489, PMCID: PMC10498870, DOI: 10.1289/ehp12125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUrinary paraben concentrationsDiet-related metabolitesEarly Pregnancy StudyUrinary metabolomePregnancy StudyParaben concentrationsReproductive functionMultivariable linear regressionFemale reproductive functionDietary exposure assessmentUltrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole timeMetabolomic analysisParaben exposureProspective cohortLiquid chromatography-quadrupole timeOrthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysisPericonceptional periodPotential confoundersUrinary concentrationsMetabolomic markersNutritional epidemiologyUnivariate statistical analysisExposure informationCritical windowUrine samples