Increased thyroid volume, prevalence of thyroid antibodies and impaired fasting glucose in young adults from organochlorine cocktail polluted area: Outcome of transgenerational transmission?

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1145-1150

  Langer, Pavel ^a   Kočan, Anton ^b   Tajtáková, Mária ^c   Koška, Juraj ^a   Rádiková, Žofia ^a   Kšinantová, Lucia ^a   Imrich, Richard ^a   Hučková, Miloslava ^a   Drobná, Beáta ^b   Gašperíková, Daniela ^a   Šeböková, Elena ^a   Klimeš, Iwar ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Fasting glycemia; Organochlorines; Polluted area; Thyroid; Transgenerational transmission

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; GLUCOSE; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BACKGROUND POLLUTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FASTING GLYCEMIA; ORGANOCHLORINE; ORGANOCHLORINES; POLLUTED AREA; POLLUTED AREAS; THYROID; THYROID VOLUME; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULTS;

SURVEYS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENCE; ANTIBODY; CONTAMINATED LAND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GLUCOSE; HEALTH STATUS; IMMUNITY; ORGANOCHLORINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; THYROID WEIGHT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FASTING; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GLUCOSE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INSECTICIDES; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

THEILOVIRUS;

EID: 53049088143     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.06.067     Document Type: Article

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