Sentences with phrase «environmental exposure to these chemicals»

«Taken together, these studies demonstrate that low levels of environmental exposure to these chemicals may adversely affect early IVF outcomes that are critical to getting pregnant and maintaining a healthy pregnancy,» Hauser said.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

Autoimmunity is a multifactorial condition; certain infections, stress, chronic inflammation in the gut, genetics, allergies and food intolerances, and environmental exposure to chemicals can all play a role in the development of autoimmune disease.

Not exact matches

While the quantity of any particular chemical linked to health and environmental hazards is in most cases very small, those small doses add up daily and exposure to derived health risk increases.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

Use low or no - VOC paint and finishes in your home, especially in your baby's nursery to decrease exposure to environmental chemicals.

Years of exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, paint strippers and other chemicals could be having more subtle effects on the way in which genes within the sperm are tagged and used later on.

It is also influenced by some as yet unknown environmental factors (some speculate a susceptibility to certain viruses such as coxsackie, others implicate exposure to certain very specific chemicals, most certainly not included in baby formula).

The Environmental Working Group tested infant formula and found, «For 1 in 10 cans of all food tested, and 1 in 3 cans of infant formula, a single serving contained enough BPA to expose a woman or infant to BPA levels more than 200 times the government's traditional safe level of exposure for industrial chemicals.»

Americaâ $ ™ s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is very concerned about the findings and considers exposure to this chemical as a very serious issue.

Environmental chemical exposure can be the result of diverse conditions including: workplace conditions (where you are exposed to a high level of chemicals on a daily basis), living near farmland (where pesticides are sprayed), exposure to high traffic areas, or even the cumulative effects of everyday common chemicals in the household.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

In addition, most cases of breast cancer are not hereditary, from BRCA or other mutations, but «sporadic,» meaning they arise at random or from smoking, obesity, exposure to toxic chemicals, hormone use, and other environmental factors.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

Yet people who make decisions about safe levels of exposure to chemicals, heavy metals and other environmental factors generally aren't including epigenetic alterations in their deliberations.

«More worryingly, since low - level chemical exposure poses a threat to human reproductive development, the consumption of products from animals grazing such pastures may be of considerable environmental concern.»

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

Researchers continue to study what sparks these hormonal changes and have begun looking at environmental chemical exposure, stress levels and diet during pregnancy.

If we're talking about environmental chemicals, we know there are pharmaceutical exposures that may predispose women to breast cancer later on.

There is also the «sister study» of 51,000 women followed for 10 years looking at nutrition, lifestyle, exposure to environmental chemicals and biological markers.

According to the principal investigator of this research project, Juan Pedro Arrebola, from the Biohealth Research Institute (IBS), «there is currently an increasing tendency in the impact of a diversity of different types of cancer, which can be attributed in part to the influence of several environmental factors, such as exposure to certain chemical pollutants.»

«Finally, as environmental factors that affect the susceptibility, triggering and progression of ALS remain largely unknown, we contend future studies are needed to evaluate longitudinal trends in exposure measurements, assess newer and nonpersistent chemicals, consider pathogenic mechanisms, and assess phenotypic variations,» the study conclude.

The authors call for further studies «to evaluate the many additional chemicals used in, and produced by, UOG processes to better quantify the concentrations of these and other contaminants in environmental samples and to assess the effects of exposure during other sensitive windows of development, including pregnancy and lactation, puberty, and the aging female.»

Environmental exposure to hormone - mimicking chemicals may have an effect too.

The test detects antibodies that form in response to the gas, and it could open the door to skin tests for exposure to other toxic chemicals, including run - of - the - mill environmental pollutants.

«Couples undergoing IVF and trying to improve their chances of success by reducing their exposure to environmental chemicals may want to opt for products that are flame - retardant free,» said senior author Russ Hauser, Frederick Lee Hisaw professor of reproductive physiology and acting chair, Department of Environmenvironmental chemicals may want to opt for products that are flame - retardant free,» said senior author Russ Hauser, Frederick Lee Hisaw professor of reproductive physiology and acting chair, Department of EnvironmentalEnvironmental Health.

«It involves toxicology, how chemicals go from air to water, exposure routes of environmental contaminants, and how to measure each one, leading to controls on how chemicals move through the environment.

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.

Some studies have found no connection between women's exposure to environmental chemicals and gynecological diseases.

«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.

Gulf War veterans with low - level exposure to chemical weapons show lasting adverse effects on brain structure and memory function, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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.»

«The currently available evidence indicates that the potential risks to public health from exposure to emissions associated with the shale gas extraction process are low if operations are properly run and regulated,» said John Harrison, director of PHE's center for radiation, chemical and environmental hazards.

The 2009 young scientist award on research on occupational health and exposure was given to Craig Moore of Newcastle University for his platform presentation «The influence of everyday clothing on percutaneous absorption and distribution of model penetrants in vitro» at the OEESC (Occupational and Environmental Exposure of Skin to Chemicals) 2009 conexposure was given to Craig Moore of Newcastle University for his platform presentation «The influence of everyday clothing on percutaneous absorption and distribution of model penetrants in vitro» at the OEESC (Occupational and Environmental Exposure of Skin to Chemicals) 2009 conExposure of Skin to Chemicals) 2009 conference.

For example, in response to questions about whether certain environmental chemicals may interfere with the endocrine system and cause negative effects, government and scientific bodies have been working to distinguish between whether a substance is merely endocrine active, or whether, under certain exposure scenarios, a substance goes beyond a simple interaction that is reversible and causes no harm to one that results in adverse health effects — endocrine disruption.

Her research areas include evaluating prenatal exposures to environmental chemicals and related adverse pregnancy outcomes, and characterizing developmental risks.

A focus of her current work is assessing the relationship between social inequality, psychosocial stress and how these factors may interact with chemical exposures to amplify pollution / health outcome relationships and produce environmental health inequalities.

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.

Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health, with a specific interest in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns associated with targeted exposure of racial and ethnic minorities to endocrine disruptors and the role that exposure plays in health care disparities.

In the Canadian Maternal - Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals Study, newborns showed significant sex differences in leptin and adiponectin levels, which were associated to maternal in utero BPA exposures (181).

Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.

The NTP is affiliated with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which awarded Southern Research a 10 - year contract to evaluate the long - term effects of early - life exposure to certain chemicals.

This research project is in support of the EPA's «Chemical Safety for Sustainability» (CSS) research program and will focus on utilizing high - resolution mass spectrometry to evaluate human exposure to environmental chemicals.

«Many scientists have studied similar effects from exposure to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, but now we're seeing it from chemicals found in common road salt and leaf litter,» said Max Lambert, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Devise scientific approaches and investigations to better understand human exposure to environmental chemicals using laboratory measurement data.

Environmental factors such as maternal infection or exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy may heighten the risk in ways that aren't yet understood, and the environment may combine in other ways with genetic factors after birth to cause the condition.

Centers for Disease Control Report, «National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals,» 2001.

Now, a new study published in the journal Environmental Health adds more evidence to the cautionary stance, showing that women who use douches can put themselves at a greater risk for exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates, which are said to interfere with the body's hormones.

To provide a fair comparison, the results were adjusted for BMI, serum HDL concentrations, smoking status, serum triglycerides, month of sampling, sex, and environmental chemical exposure.

Studies suggest that testosterone levels in men are rapidly declining in recent years because of our exposure to environmental chemicals.