Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tillett, Tanya

Titel

Toxicants and Teen Health

Ist Teil von

• Environmental health perspectives, 2008-06, Vol.116 (6), p.A259-A259

Ort / Verlag

Research Triangle Park: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), as their name suggests, persist in the environment, contributing to the burden of toxicants threatening human health. The evidence to date strongly suggests these chemicals contribute to endocrine disruption, including altered thyroid function. Many studies have looked at health outcomes of POP exposure in infants and adults, but few have analyzed the effects in the age group in between: older children and adolescents. A new study now confirms a relationship in adolescents between altered thyroid function and prenatal exposure to certain POPs as well as to other common pollutants.