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Vanessa Ward

Maternal levels of dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) may increase weight and body... - 0 views

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  • Objectives: To investigate the effect of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) on weight, height and body mass index (BMI) in adult female offspring of the Michigan fisheater cohort examined between 1973 and 1991
  • Maternal height and BMI were significant predictors of the daughters’ height, weight and BMI.
  • The weight and BMI of adult offspring were statistically significantly associated with the extrapolated prenatal DDE levels of their mothers.
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  • ncreasingly, however, prenatal exposure to toxicants is suspected of contributing to obesity.
  • Previous studies have shown that Michigan anglers and fisheaters have higher serum levels of PCBs and DDE than population controls.
  • A total of 176 (82.6%) daughters participated in at least one of two repeated investigations
  • Our results suggest that higher prenatal exposure to DDE, but not to PCBs, is statistically significantly associated with increased weight and BMI in adult female offspring.
  • Vanessa Ward on 04 Jun 10
     
    Liz, this article was already in my library and you might want to look at it. I feel as though the study isn't completely controlled since it deals with people who chose to participate in the study over the course of many years but there are some concepts that can be gathered that may be beneficial to you.
  • Vanessa Ward on 11 Jun 10
     
    This is another epidemiological study similar to the study present by Suphada on sport fish consumption. There were many outside variables, leading to only a small sample size that could be used.
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  • suwhitte on 14 May 10
     
    Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP's mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. With an impact factor of 6.12, EHP is the top monthly journal in public, environmental, and occupational health and the second-ranked monthly journal in environmental sciences. The environmental health sciences include many fields of study and increasingly comprise a multidisciplinary research area. EHP publishes articles from a wide range of scientific disciplines encompassing basic research; epidemiologic studies; risk assessment; relevant ethical, legal, social, environmental justice, and policy topics; longitudinal human studies; in vitro and in vivo animal research with a clear relationship to human health; and environmental medicine case reports. Because children are uniquely sensitive to their environments, EHP devotes a research section specifically to issues surrounding children's environmental health. Search current issue and archives for journal articles related to your topic.
Vanessa Ward

San Francisco Medical Society | The Weight of Evidence - 0 views

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SFMS Blumberg Grun obesity epidemic endocrine disruption EDCs obesity

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  • “leading to neglect of other plausible mechanisms and well-intentioned but potentially ill-founded proposals for reducing obesity rates”
  • Since publication of that review, substantial evidence has emerged that increases the plausibility of one of the alternative mechanisms suggested by Keith et al: disruption of weight regulation by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the environment.
  • Concerns about the potential contribution of EDCs to childhood obesity build from two considerations, one out of human biology and the other from animal experiments
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  • toxicologists were concerned more with weight loss, which was seen as an adverse outcome.
  • Many of these chemicals alter the behavior of specific genes that are involved in determining the number of fat cells (adipocytes) an individual will have as an adult.
  • he list of contaminants implicated by animal studies is substantial, including several estrogenic EDCs such as DES, bisphenol A, soy phytoestrogens
  • Almost no human data are available to test the obesogen hypothesis in people. No epidemiological evidence exists, because the hypothesis is so new
  • One in vitro experiment, however, has demonstrated that exposure to obesogens increases the rate of conversion of human stem cells to adipocytes (Kirchner et al 2010), confirming the validity of the basic mechanism and the relevance of the animal studies to people.
  • That would be a big win for medicine and public health.
  • Vanessa Ward on 11 Jun 10
     
    San Francisco Medical Society discusses the possible relationship between chemical exposure and the obesity epidemic.
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