Background: Diabetes is a major threat to public health in the United States and worldwide.
Understanding the role of environmental chemicals in the development or progression of …

OBJECTIVE—Low-level exposure to some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has recently
become a focus because of their possible link with the risk of diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN …

Background Low doses of some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) associate cross-
sectionally with type 2 diabetes, whereas associations with high POP exposures are …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major and fast growing public health problem.
Although obesity is considered to be the main driver of the pandemic of T2DM, a possible …

The prevalence of diabetes and obesity has increased rapidly over the last few decades in
both developed and developing countries. While it is intuitively appealing to suggest that …

Background: Prospective data regarding persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and risk of
type 2 diabetes (T2D) are limited, and the results for individual POPs are not entirely …

Background Experimental evidence supports the hypothesis that persistent organochlorine
pollutants (POPs) may cause type 2 diabetes mellitus, whereas there is no fully convincing …

Background Over half of the people with diabetes in the world live in Asia. Emerging
scientific evidence suggests that diabetes is associated with environmental pollutants …

Background Associations between several persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and type 2
diabetes have been found in humans, but the relationship has rarely been investigated in …

Background Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may predispose to the
development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but prospective human evidence is scarce …