Barcelona Institute for Global Health

The link between a pregnant mother's BPA exposure and wheezing in her school-aged child years later was only seen in female children.

Uh, Alicia Aublan, I'm sorry, I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce her last name, so hopefully I didn't, um, pronounce it too badly, a lead author of the study and researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health explained, "Our results are in line with those of earlier studies, which have also reported that bisphenol A has a negative impact on respiratory health in childhood.

We believe that the effect may be due to the fact that bisphenols can cross the placental barrier and interfere with the child's respiratory and immune systems during the developmental phase." As far as the different implications, implications of girls versus boys, the researchers remarked that, "Bisphenols are endocrine disruptors and can interfere with sex hormones.

As our findings suggest, this may give rise to differences in the effects they have depending on the sex of the person exposed." Did you know that Black women face increased BPA contamination inside of their bodies compared to white women? In 2018, a Black person was 40% more likely to have asthma than non-Hispanic whites.