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Temporal Evaluation of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Serum Levels in Middle-aged and Older California Women, 2011-2015. Susan Hurley, Debbie Goldberg, David O Nelson, Weihong Guo, Yunzhu Wang, Hyoung-Gee Baek, Junesoo Park, Myrto Petreas, Leslie Bernstein, Hoda Anton-Culver, and Peggy Reynolds Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00565 • Publication Date (Web): 17 Mar 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on March 21, 2017

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TITLE: Temporal Evaluation of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Serum Levels in

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Middle-aged and Older California Women, 2011-2015.

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AUTHORS: Susan Hurley1*, Debbie Goldberg1, David O. Nelson1, Weihong Guo2,3, Yunzhu

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Wang2, Hyoung-Gee Baek2, June-Soo Park2, Myrto Petreas2, Leslie Bernstein4, Hoda Anton-

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Culver5, Peggy Reynolds1, 6

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Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Berkeley, CA, USA;

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Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Berkeley, CA,

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Food and Drug Laboratory Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA

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Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte,

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Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; 6

Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford,

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CA, USA;

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Corresponding Author:

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Susan Hurley,

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Cancer Prevention Institute of California

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2001 Center Street, Suite 700

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Berkeley, CA 94704

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In response to health concerns and widespread human exposures, two widely-used

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commercial formulations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were banned in the United

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States in 2005. Initial biomonitoring data have provided early indications of reduced human

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exposures since these bans took effect. Our objective was to evaluate temporal trends in PBDE

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serum levels among a population of older California women during a four-year period, beginning

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approximately five years after these formulations were banned. Automated solid phase

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extraction and gas chromatography/high resolution mass spectrometry were used to measure

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PBDE levels in blood collected during 2011-2015 among 1,253 women (ages 40-94)

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participating in the California Teachers Study. Only congeners with detection frequencies (DF) >

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75% were included in the present analysis: BDE-47 (DF=88%); BDE-100 (DF=78%); and BDE-

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153 (DF=80%). Results from age- and race/ethnicity-adjusted linear regression analyses

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indicated modest, but statistically significant, average annual percent increases in the serum

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concentrations of all three PBDEs over the four-year study period. While not without limitations,

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these results, in the context of other biomonitoring data, suggest that earlier reported declines in

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PBDE levels may have plateaued and may now be starting to increase. Further biomonitoring to

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ascertain current trends and determinants of population exposures is warranted.

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KEYWORDS: PBDEs, human exposure, temporal trends, serum

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INTRODUCTION:

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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of over 200 congeners introduced in the

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late 1970s as flame retardant additives to a wide variety of consumer products and building

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materials.1 Their use skyrocketed over the ensuing three decades and reports began to emerge

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during the 1990s of rapidly rising body burden levels of PBDEs in human tissues, worldwide and

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within the United States.2-9 These observations, coupled with laboratory evidence of potentially

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associated adverse health effects, including neurodevelopmental toxicity, immunotoxicity,

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endocrine disruption, and carcinogenicity, resulted in the restriction and ban in the production

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and use of PBDEs, both internationally and in the United States.7, 10-12

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PBDEs historically have been used in three primary commercial formulations, containing

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mixtures of compounds; these are named by the average number of bromine atoms of the

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chemical compounds they contain. The Penta- formulation (primarily composed of BDE-99,

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BDE-47, BDE-100, BDE-153,and BDE-154)13 was predominately used to treat polyurethane

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foam cushioning in furniture and carpet padding. The Octa- formulation (primarily composed of

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BDE-183, BDE-207, BDE-203, BDE-209, and BDE-197)13 was used to treat hard plastic casings 3 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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in computers and other electronic appliances and equipment. The Deca- formulation, almost

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entirely composed of BDE-209,13 was also used in hard plastic casings, as well as in textiles,

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adhesives, and wire insulation.6, 10, 12 In the United States, regulatory and voluntary measures

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resulted in the discontinuation of the production, use, and sale of the Penta- and Octa-

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formulations by the end of 2004 and the Deca-formulation by the end of 2013.10

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In Europe, where PBDEs were phased-out a few years earlier than in the United States, there

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is evidence, although somewhat mixed, that PBDE levels in environmental matrices, wildlife and

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human tissue have been declining.14 In the United States comparatively few data are available to

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evaluate the success of the PBDE phase-outs. Two small biomonitoring studies in California

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have indicated secular decreases in PBDE levels in breast milk15 and blood.16 A larger study of

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newborn blood spots in New York has also suggested secular decreases in body burden levels

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since the 2005 phase-out of the Penta- and Octa- formulations.17 In contrast, although not

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specifically designed to evaluate temporal trends, a pair of small breast milk biomonitoring

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studies in Texas indicated no declines in PBDE levels from 2003 through 2007.18

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The objective of the current analysis was to add to the limited data available to help inform

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the degree to which the phase-out of PBDEs in this country has reduced human exposures.

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Capitalizing on the availability of serum specimens collected from over 1,000 middle-aged and

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older California women participating in an on-going cohort study, we conducted a temporal

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analysis of PBDE serum levels in blood specimens collected from 2011 through 2015.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS:

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Study Population

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The study population consisted of 1,253 participants drawn from the California Teachers

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Study (CTS), a prospective cohort study that recruited 133,479 female professional public school

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employees in 1995-1996 primarily to study breast cancer. A full description of the cohort is

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available elsewhere.19 Women included in the current analysis were serving as controls in an on-

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going breast cancer case-control study nested within the CTS or were recruited separately in a

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convenience sample of breast cancer-free CTS participants which targeted non-whites to enhance

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racial/ethnic diversity. Controls in the case-control study were drawn from a probability sample

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of at-risk cohort members frequency matched to breast cancer cases by age, race/ethnicity and

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broad geographic region (corresponding to the three CTS field collection study sites). The

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convenience sample of breast-cancer free participants was drawn from a probability sample of

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CTS members under the age of 80 years who self-reported as either White, Black, Hispanic or

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Asian/Pacific Islander and were geographically distributed so as to provide approximately equal

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representation of urban and rural residence. Furthermore all participants included in the current

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analysis lived in California and completed a supplementary interviewer-administered

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questionnaire when their blood was drawn between 2011 and 2015. Participants’ ages were

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ascertained by the questionnaire and dates of blood collection were recorded by the interviewer

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at the time blood was collected. Study participants reported their race/ethnicity at recruitment

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into the study on the baseline CTS questionnaire. The use of human subjects was reviewed and

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approved by the California Health and Human Services Agency, Committee for the Protection of

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Human Subjects and all participating centers’ Institutional Review Boards.

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Serum Collection

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Blood was collected from participants between May 9, 2011 and August 24, 2015 by licensed phlebotomists, usually in the participants’ homes. Blood was collected into a 10 mL 5 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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BD® tube (catalog#367985, Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ) with clot activator, double

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gel for transport, and silicone coated interior using standard phlebotomy techniques. Prior to

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field processing, specimens were kept on cool packs for at least 30 minutes. Within several hours

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of collection, phlebotomists spun down the clotted blood samples in the field using portable

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centrifuges to separate the serum portion. Processed samples were then frozen and stored at -20

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°C for 4-6 weeks until transported either via local courier (on cool-packs) or overnight (on dry-

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ice via FedEx) to the laboratory for chemical analysis. Samples remained frozen during this

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transportation process. Upon receipt at the laboratory, specimens were stored at -20 °C until

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analysis.

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PBDE Analysis

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Serum samples were analyzed for 19 PBDE congeners by the Environmental Chemistry

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Laboratory at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (Berkeley, CA). Samples

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were thawed and aliquoted for PBDE and lipid measurements. Automated solid phase extraction

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(SPE; Biotage, Uppsala, Sweden) and gas chromatography/high resolution mass spectrometry

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(GC-HRMS, DFS, ThermoFisher, Bremen, Germany) were used for the analysis of PBDEs.20

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Briefly, thawed serum samples (2 mL) were fortified with a panel of 13C12 labeled surrogate

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standards and mixed well. Equal volumes (4 mL) of formic acid and water were added into each

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sample before loading on the SPE modules. Oasis HLB cartridges (3 cc, 500 mg, Waters Co.,

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Milford, MA, USA) and acidified silica (500 oC pre-baked, manually packed, 3 cc) were used for

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the sample extraction and clean-up, respectively. The collected final eluates in hexane:

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dichlomethane (1:1) were concentrated in TurboVap (Biotage, Charlotte, NC, USA), and spiked

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with recovery standards. Standard reference material (SRM 1958, National Institute of Standards

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target analytes were used as QA/QC samples. The laboratory is proficient in the analysis of

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PBDEs as demonstrated by its regular participation in the performance evaluation system

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managed by the Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program (AMAP).

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A small volume of sera from each sample was sent to Boston Children’s Hospital for

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measurement of total cholesterol and triglycerides by enzymatic methods.21, 22 Cholesterol and

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triglycerides were used to calculate the lipid content based on Phillips’ formula.23 PBDE levels

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were then normalized for lipids to produce values with units of ng/g lipid. To be consistent with

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national biomonitoring data,24 we replaced concentrations below the laboratory limit of

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detections (LODs) with LOD/√2 before lipid adjustment.

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In order to minimize potential biases associated with imputing high frequency of non-

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detectable levels, only the three congeners with detection frequencies (DF) of 75% or more were

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included in the current analysis. These included: 2,2',4,4'-Tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47),

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with an average LOD of 0.032 ng/mL and DF=88%; 2,2',4,4',6-Pentabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-

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100), with an average LOD of 0.007 ng/mL and DF=78%; and 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexabromodiphenyl

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ether (BDE-153), with an average LOD of 0.015 ng/mL and DF=80%.

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Data analyses

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Summary statistics (including means, medians, minimum and maximum values) were

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generated for the lipid-normalized concentration of each congener. Initial evaluations of

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temporal trends were evaluated by plotting the concentration of each PBDE congener versus the

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date of sample collection. Linear models were used to regress the log10-transformed serum

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concentration of each PBDE congener on serum collection date. (Serum concentrations were

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log10-transformed to symmetrize the skewed distributions before using them in regressions). To

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at blood draw (continuous years – considered both as a linear and a quadratic term), and

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race/ethnicity (categorical: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Other/unknown).

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Regression models were built separately for each PBDE congener and only the factors that were

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significant at p