Childhood Obesity and Environmental Chemicals
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Childhood obesity and endocrine disrupting chemicals
The prevalence of obesity around the world has increased sharply. Strong evidence has emerged over the last decades that human exposure to numerous endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is the cause of obesity and obesity-related metabolic diseases. Many EDCs are manmade chemicals that are released into the environment. EDCs are exogenous compounds that interfere with hormonal regulation and no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0027-2507
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20229