Low dose of some persistent organic pollutants predicts type 2 diabetes: A nested case-control study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1235-1242

  Lee, Duk Hee ^a   Steffes, Michael W ^b   Sjödin, Andreas ^c   Jones, Richard S ^c   Needham, Larry L ^c   Jacobs Jr , David R ^d,e  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Obesity; Organochlorine pesticides; Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MIREX; NONACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLORDAN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956839403     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901480     Document Type: Article

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