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  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Causal Inference
  • Biostatistics

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  • Understanding complex environmental exposures and their health impacts is crucial for effective public health interventions.
  • Identifying mediating pathways, such as birth length, is key to unraveling the effects of environmental mixtures on child development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel methodology for estimating direct and indirect effects of complex environmental mixtures on outcomes through mediator variables.
  • To apply this methodology to investigate the role of birth length in mediating the association between in utero metal co-exposures and children's neurodevelopment.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) to model nonlinear effects and interactions of co-exposures on mediators and outcomes.
  • Employed simulation of counterfactuals from posterior predictive distributions to estimate mediation effects.
  • Applied the BKMR-Causal Mediation Analysis to a prospective birth cohort in Bangladesh, assessing in utero exposure to arsenic, manganese, and lead.

Main Results:

  • The novel BKMR-Causal Mediation Analysis outperformed existing methods in simulations with complex exposure-mediator-outcome relationships.
  • A significant negative association was observed between the metal mixture and neurodevelopmental scores in younger children.
  • Evidence suggests birth length acts as a mediator, partially explaining the adverse neurodevelopmental effects of the metal mixture.

Conclusions:

  • The developed BKMR-Causal Mediation Analysis provides a robust framework for dissecting complex environmental mixture effects.
  • Interventions aimed at increasing birth length, potentially through improved fetal nutrition, may mitigate the harmful neurodevelopmental impacts of in utero metal exposure.