Objective To estimate associations between use of specific agricultural pesticides and
incident diabetes in women. Methods We used data from the Agricultural Health Study, a …

OBJECTIVE—To examine the association between pesticide use during pregnancy and
gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among wives of licensed pesticide applicators …

Background Pesticides are an agricultural chemical suspected to be a significant contributor
to a global diabetes pandemic. The purpose of this study was to confirm previous findings of …

Exposure to certain environmental toxicants may be associated with increased risk of
developing diabetes. The authors' aim was to investigate the relation between lifetime …

Background Diabetes mellitus has a multifactorial pathogenesis with a strong genetic
component as well as many environmental and lifestyle influences. Emerging evidence …

Background Farmworkers and their families are at risk for pesticide exposure, however, little
is known about behaviors that increase their risk. We determined the frequency of risky …

Background Families of farmer pesticide applicators have unusual opportunities for
exposure, directly or indirectly, to pesticides. These exposures are not well characterized …

The associations of 8 pesticides and pesticide metabolites with total diabetes (diagnosed
and undiagnosed) and pre-diabetes (glycohemoglobin 5.7–6.4%) were evaluated using the …

Abstract Objective Organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) are commonly used pesticides
across the world, however there is little epidemiological evidence linking their exposure to …

Background Among the adverse health effects of exposure to pesticides, an association with
diabetes has been reported. However, there is a lack of epidemiologic studies on the health …