Erratum: Prenatal exposureto DDT and pyrethroids for malaria control and child neuro development: The VHEMBE cohort, South Africa (Environ Health Perspect, (2018) 126(4), (047004), 10.1289/EHP2129)

Abstract

In this article, pyrethroid metabolite measurements were reported to be specific gravity-corrected. However, the statistical analyses were completed with uncorrected pyrethroid metabolite measurements. The results using specific gravity-corrected metabolite measurements are largely consistent with the uncorrected analyses. This error affected the data in Tables S2, S3, S5, S7, S10, S11, S14, S15 and Figures S2–S16 and Tables 2, 6, 7,and8 in the article, as well as associated text. The main text tables and associated text, as well as the supplemental tables and figures, have been corrected in this erratum and the original article. This error does not affect the results with DDT/DDE serum measurements. In addition, the fourth sentence of the fifth paragraph in the “Results” section read “There was a significant interaction of cis-DBCA and sex on Receptive Communication and Language Composite with a negative coefficient in girls and a positive coefficient in boys, although neither sex stratum was significant.” The statement regarding a lack of a significant sex stratum is incorrect, both for the specific gravity-corrected and uncorrected data and has been removed from the article. In addition in Table 7, the first column heading read “cis-DrBCA” and has been corrected to “cis-DBCA.” Likewise, “carboxylicacid” has been corrected to “carboxylic acid” throughout the manuscript. Finally, the data for Cognitive and Receptive Communication Bayley Scales of Infant Development measures were inadvertently omitted from Table 6 of the article. These data are now provided in the corrected table. The “Results” section of the abstract should read: “DDT and DDE were not associated with significantly lower scores for any BSID-III scale. In contrast, each 10-fold increase in cis-DCCA, trans-DCCA, and 3-phenoxybenzoic acid were associated, respectively, with −0:70 (95% CI: −1:25, −0:15), −0:49 (95% CI: −0:96, −0:02), and −0:65 (−1:23, −0:06) decrement in Social-Emotional scores at 1 y of age. In addition, each 10-fold increase in maternal cis-DBCA levels was associated with significant decrements at 2 y of age in Language Composite scores and Expressive Communication scores [b = − 1:90; 95% CI: −3:67, −0:14 and b = − 0:41; 95% CI: −0:81, −0:01, respectively, for a 10-fold increase]. Significant differences by sex were estimated for pyrethroid metabolites and motor function scores at 2 y of age, with higher scores for boys and lower scores for girls.”