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endocrine disrupting chemical
Includes:
- organophosphate pesticides
- flame retardants [1]
- PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers)
Complications:
- loss of IQ, intellectual disability
- childhood & adult obesity
- diabetes mellitus type 2
- ADHD
- autism
- cryptorchidism
- testicular cancer
- male factor infertility
- leiomyomas
- endometriosis
- fibroids,
- birth defects [1]
General
toxin (hazardous material, poison)
References
- Attina TM, Hauser R, Sathyanarayana S et al
Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the USA: a
population-based disease burden and cost analysis.
Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Published: 17 October 2016
PMID: 27765541
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30275-3/fulltext
- Merrill MA
The economic legacy of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Published: 17 October 2016
PMID: 27765540
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30279-0/fulltext