The role of persistent organic pollutants in the worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus and the possible connection to farmed atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 301-313

  Crinnion, Walter J ^a  

^a Southwest College Naturopathic Med   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; DM; EFA; Farmed fish; Fish oil; Glucose; HDL; Insulin; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; PCBs; Pesticides; Pollutants; POPs; Salmon; T2DM; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATLANTIC SALMON; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; SEA FOOD; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FISHERIES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; SALMO SALAR; SEAFOOD; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84857427423     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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