Associations of environmental exposure to dioxins with prevalent diabetes among general inhabitants in Japan

Environmental Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-68

  Uemura, Hirokazu ^a   Arisawa, Kokichi ^a,b   Hiyoshi, Mineyoshi ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^b   Sumiyoshi, Yoshio ^b   Morinaga, Kenji ^b   Kodama, Kazunori ^b   Suzuki, Taka ichiro ^b   Nagai, Masaki ^b   Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b The Study Group on the Accumulation of Dioxins in Humans   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Diabetes; Dioxins; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins; Polychlorinated dibenzofurans

Indexed keywords

DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; DIABETES; DIOXIN; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIFESTYLE; LIVER FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 50149105740     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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