When we think of ill effects from lead exposure various neurologic problems usually come to mind. Now researchers at the University of Michigan say another health impact can be added to the list: obesity.
Even at low levels, lead is associated with obesity in mice whose mothers were exposed to the chemical, researchers at the U-M School of Public Health found. Specifically male mice exposed to lead had an 8-10 percent increase in weight.
“The data support the obesogen hypothesis that toxicant exposures in the womb contribute to the higher rate of obesity,” said Dana Dolinoy, the John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and senior author of the study. “There are certain chemicals that are considered the hallmarks of the obesity epidemic, and lead has not been not one of them.”
The closest previous research has come to tying lead exposure to weight are studies showing decreased fetal and early childhood growth in human infants, and obesity in later life in mice. But the U-M study is the first to look at how what a mother ingests, even before pregnancy, impacts her offspring. Scientists like Dolinoy and those in her lab have found that the crucial beginning of life often is where chemical exposure is most impactful.
The U-M paper, “Perinatal Lead (Pb) Exposure Results in Sex-Specific Effects on Food Intake, Fat, Weight and Insulin Response across the Murine Life-Course,” is published in the current issue of PLOS-ONE.
In the study, mothers were exposed to lead through drinking water two weeks before mating then throughout pregnancy and nursing. Their litters were then measured at 3, 6 and 9 months of age for energy expenditure, spontaneous activity, food intake, and body weight and composition. At age 9 months they were tested for glucose tolerance. Researchers determined sex specific impacts on all of the measures.
The groups of mice were exposed to lead at 0.0 parts per million (ppm) for the control group, 2.1ppm, 16ppm or 32ppm. Maternal blood lead levels (BLL) tested at weaning were below the level of detection for the control group, 4.1 (±1.3) micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL), 25.1 (±7.3) μg/dL and 32.1 (±11.4) μg/dL, respectively.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established a reference level of 5 μg/dL to identify children who have been exposed to lead and require case management. Yet, no safe BLL in children has been identified.
The researchers found:
- Starting in early life, males in the two highest exposure groups outweighed the controls, a trend consistent from youth to adulthood.
- An increase in body fat at all dosages showed up in males at 3 months of age.
- Overall, both sexes exposed to the highest dose ate more than the control group, with males eating more at 6 months of age and female consumption increasing at 9 months of age.
- Exposed males showed impaired insulin levels at 9 months
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