Bisphenol A and adult disease: Making sense of fragmentary data and competing inferences

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Melzer, David ^a   Galloway, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT DISEASE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG METABOLISM; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEXUAL MATURATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; POLLUTANT; URINE;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOLS;

EID: 85046980335     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-6-201109200-00009     Document Type: Editorial

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