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Sininger YS, Condon CG, Gimenez LA, Shuffrey LC, Myers MM, Elliott AJ, Thai T, Nugent JD, Pini N, Sania A, Odendaal HJ, Angal J, Tobacco D, Hoffman HJ, Simmons DD, Fifer WP. Prenatal Exposure to Tobacco and Alcohol Alters Development of the Neonatal Auditory System. Dev Neurosci 2021; 43:358-375. [PMID: 34348289 DOI: 10.1159/000518130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Prenatal exposures to alcohol (PAE) and tobacco (PTE) are known to produce adverse neonatal and childhood outcomes including damage to the developing auditory system. Knowledge of the timing, extent, and combinations of these exposures on effects on the developing system is limited. As part of the physiological measurements from the Safe Passage Study, Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) and Transient Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOAEs) were acquired on infants at birth and one-month of age. Research sites were in South Africa and the Northern Plains of the U.S. Prenatal information on alcohol and tobacco exposure was gathered prospectively on mother/infant dyads. Cluster analysis was used to characterize three levels of PAE and three levels of PTE. Repeated-measures ANOVAs were conducted for newborn and one-month-old infants for ABR peak latencies and amplitudes and TEOAE levels and signal-to-noise ratios. Analyses controlled for hours of life at test, gestational age at birth, sex, site, and other exposure. Significant main effects of PTE included reduced newborn ABR latencies from both ears. PTE also resulted in a significant reduction of ABR peak amplitudes elicited in infants at 1-month of age. PAE led to a reduction of TEOAE amplitude for 1-month-old infants but only in the left ear. Results indicate that PAE and PTE lead to early disruption of peripheral, brainstem, and cortical development and neuronal pathways of the auditory system, including the olivocochlear pathway.
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- Yvonne S Sininger
- Department of Head & Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- C&Y Consultants, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Pediatric & Community Research, Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Center for Pediatric & Community Research, Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
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- Center for Pediatric & Community Research, Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
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- Epidemiology and Statistics Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Developmental Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Blair PS, Rubens D, Pease A, Mellers D, Ingram J, Ewer AK, Cohen MC, Sidebotham P, Ward Platt M, Coombs R, Davis A, Hall A, Fleming P. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the routine otoacoustic emission infant hearing screening test: an epidemiological retrospective case-control study. BMJ Open 2019; 9:e030026. [PMID: 31324686 PMCID: PMC6661569 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To investigate whether decreased otoacoustic emission (OAE) signal recordings in the right ear are associated with an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and to monitor any temporal changes in risk factors. DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. SETTING Telephone interviews with families recruited in England between July 2016 and October 2017 who experienced the unexpected death of a child <4 years old since 2008 and control families recruited from maternity wards in Bristol and Birmingham. PARTICIPANTS We recruited 91 (89%) of the 102 bereaved families who made initial contact, 64 deaths were under 1 year (sudden unexpected death in infancy) of which 60 remained unexplained (SIDS). Of the 220 control families, 194 (88%) follow-up interviews were conducted. We had analysable hearing data for 24 SIDS infants (40%) and 98 controls (51%). RESULTS OAE signals were marginally increased rather than decreased among SIDS infants for the right ear, especially at lower frequencies, but not significantly so. The strongest predictors of SIDS were bed-sharing in hazardous (infant sleeping next to a carer who smoked, drank alcohol or slept on a sofa) circumstances (35% vs 3% controls, p<0.0001), infants found prone (33% vs 3% controls, p<0.0001) and infants whose health in the final week was 'not good' (53% vs 9% controls, p<0.0001). The prevalence of maternal smoking during pregnancy among both SIDS mothers (20%) and controls (10%) was much lower than previous studies. CONCLUSIONS Hearing data were difficult to obtain; larger numbers would be needed to determine if asymmetrical differences between the right and left ear were a marker for SIDS. A national prospective registry for monitoring and a renewed campaign to a new generation of parents needs to be considered underlining the initial message to place infants on their backs for sleep and the more recent message to avoid bed-sharing in hazardous circumstances.
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- Peter S Blair
- Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Research & Development, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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- Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Child Health, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
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- Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Audiology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network: West of England, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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