Sentences with phrase «endocrine disrupting chemical exposure»
Trasande - led human health impact and cost estimates attributed to endocrine disrupting chemical exposure completely unfounded, researchers show
https://www.endocrinescience.org/ Not exact matches
>> Read the complete research study: Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
In light of Father's Day, I wanted to share some information on the harmful effects that could be caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, and how exposure could be negatively affecting the men in our lives.
Women can take steps to reduce exposure to certain endocrine - disrupting chemicals.
With many endocrine disrupting chemicals, the major risk is exposure as a fetus or young child.
«This near ubiquitous exposure means we are all part of a global experiment on the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on our bodies.»
Scientists have suspected that exposure early in life to BPA and certain other chemicals that disrupt the action of hormones, called endocrine disruptors, may promote obesity in adulthood, but the exact cause is unknown.
Exposure to the endocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A during pregnancy may raise a mother's susceptibility to weight gain and diabetes later in life, according to a new animal study published in the Endocrine Society's journal Endocendocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A during pregnancy may raise a mother's susceptibility to weight gain and diabetes later in life, according to a new animal study published in the Endocrine Society's journal EndocEndocrine Society's journal Endocrinology.
Exposure to the endocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy can cause oxidative damage that may put the baby at risk of developing diabetes or heart disease later in life, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's journal Endocendocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy can cause oxidative damage that may put the baby at risk of developing diabetes or heart disease later in life, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's journal EndocEndocrine Society's journal Endocrinology.
An expectant mother's exposure to the endocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) can raise her offspring's risk of obesity by reducing sensitivity to a hormone responsible for controlling appetite, according to a mouse study published in the Endocrine Society's journal Endocendocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) can raise her offspring's risk of obesity by reducing sensitivity to a hormone responsible for controlling appetite, according to a mouse study published in the Endocrine Society's journal EndocEndocrine Society's journal Endocrinology.
Early exposure in the human womb to phthalates, which are common environmental chemicals, disrupts the masculinization of male genitals, according to a new study that will be presented Sunday at the Endocrine Society's 97th annual meeting in San Diego.
«Reduced testosterone tied to endocrine - disrupting chemical exposure.»
«While the study's cross-sectional design limit the conclusions we can draw, our results support the hypothesis that environmental exposure to endocrine - disrupting chemicals such as phthalates could be contributing to the trend of declining testosterone and related disorders,» Meeker said.
Men, women and children exposed to high levels of phthalates — endocrine - disrupting chemicals found in plastics and some personal care products — tended to have reduced levels of testosterone in their blood compared to those with lower chemical exposure, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolisendocrine - disrupting chemicals found in plastics and some personal care products — tended to have reduced levels of testosterone in their blood compared to those with lower chemical exposure, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolisEndocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»
«For the first time, we have shown a direct link between exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals from industrial products and adverse effects on human sperm function,» said Niels E. Skakkebaek, professor and leader of the Danish team.
Seminar: Prenatal and postnatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and children's neuro - cognitive and behavioral development Associate Professor Youn - Hee Lim, Seoul National University, College of Medicine
Much of her current research involves human exposure science and reproductive epidemiology studies of endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as flame retardants, phthalates, BPA, and others.
Original publication: Bond, G.G. & Dietrich, D.R. Human cost burden of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimated the burden of diseases attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), also known as environmental estrogens, and associated costs in the US and EU.
A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.
WASHINGTON (October 26, 2016)-- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health by Trasande et al. alleging significant European health care costs from exposure to chemicals that the authors have erroneously labeled as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs):
The projects concern the effects of environmental exposures such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, flame retardants, pesticides, metals, particulate air pollution, as well as drugs, psycho - social stressors and ethnical disparities.
WASHINGTON (September 8, 2016)-- An animal study suggests that resistance to tamoxifen therapy in some estrogen receptor positive breast cancers may originate from in utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
«The evidence for adverse reproductive outcomes (infertility, cancers, malformations) from exposure to endocrine - disrupting chemicals is strong, and there is mounting evidence for effects on other endocrine systems, including thyroid, neuroendocrine, obesity and metabolism, and insulin and glucose homeostasis.»
Konkel was honored at the Society's 99th Annual Meeting & Expo in Orlando, Fla., for her coverage of how exposure to endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can affect the development of the placenta, -LSB-...] Read more
Scientific evidence now shows that some chemicals, especially endocrine disrupting compounds, can exert negative effects at extremely low levels of exposure, sometimes with more serious or different effects than at higher doses.
The upshot is that the scientific evidence is weak in pointing a smoking gun at silicones, but the questions and uncertainty are there, so it's worth keeping a close eye on them — especially given the growing concerns about endocrine - disrupting chemicals that might produce health problems a generation after a minuscule exposure.
Not only can endocrine disrupting chemicals affect developing babies later in their lives, but there's some evidence that they can also affect future generations: one study on rats showed that exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy affects the brain two generations later!
Increased conversion to estrogen may be due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver enzymes).
Lancet, very prestigious journal, came out with an article in October of 2016 saying that in America, which we have the most endocrine disrupting chemicals, we have an 11 million IQ points lost every year from exposure to these chemicals.
This means that exposures to the numerous chemicals in food and the environment, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals and carcinogens, could be causing levels of damage that would not occur if the body were able to detoxify them.»
Phthalates are a suspected endocrine disrupting chemical and have been linked to an increasing number of reproductive health impacts at low dose exposures, and exposure to building materials containing phthalates has been correlated with asthma and related allergy impacts.