Prenatal Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, DDE, and DDT and Overweight in Children: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study | Zendy

Damaskini Valvi | Zendy; Michelle A. Méndez | Zendy; David Martínez | Zendy; Joan O. Grimalt | Zendy; Maties Torrent | Zendy; Jordi Sunyer | Zendy; Martine Vrijheid | Zendy

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Prenatal Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, DDE, and DDT and Overweight in Children: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Author(s) -

Damaskini Valvi,

Michelle A. Méndez,

David Martínez,

Joan O. Grimalt,

Maties Torrent,

Jordi Sunyer,

Martine Vrijheid

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1103862

Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , body mass index , population , confidence interval , cohort , prospective cohort study , percentile , cohort study , obesity , pregnancy , physiology , endocrinology , environmental health , biology , statistics , mathematics , genetics

Recent experimental evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may increase postnatal obesity risk and that these effects may be sex or diet dependent.

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