Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the diabetes epidemic in countries in the WHO South-East Asia region

The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 925-927

  Gifford, Robert ^a,b   Siribaddana, Sisira ^c   Forbes, Shareen ^a   Eddleston, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c RAJARATA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FUNGICIDE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PESTICIDE; PLASTICIZER; SOLVENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE;

AGE; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTOXICATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WATER CONTAMINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PESTICIDES; SOLVENTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84947930731     PISSN: 22138587     EISSN: 22138595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00423-4     Document Type: Note

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