endocrine disrupting chemical
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Introduction
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]
More general terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27765541 <Internet> 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 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27765540 <Internet> http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30279-0/fulltext