Role of environmental chemicals in diabetes and obesity: a National Toxicology Program workshop review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been increasing interest in the concept that exposures to environmental chemicals may be contributing factors to the epidemics of diabetes and obesity. On 11-13 January 2011, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Division of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) organized a workshop to evaluate the current state of the science on these topics of increasing public health concern.

Objective

The main objective of the workshop was to develop recommendations for a research agenda after completing a critical analysis of the literature for humans and experimental animals exposed to certain environmental chemicals. The environmental exposures considered at the workshop were arsenic, persistent organic pollutants, maternal smoking/nicoti

SUBMITTER: Thayer KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3385443 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature