Environmental factors are recognized as risk factors of thyroid cancer in humans. Exposure
to radiation, both from nuclear weapon or fallout or medical radiation, and to some organic …

Selenium is an essential trace element for maintenance of overall health, whose deficiency
and dyshomeostasis have been linked to a variety of diseases and disorders. The majority of …

Background and aims Recent human and laboratory studies have suggested the possibility
that selenium overexposure may increase blood pressure. We sought to ascertain whether …

Abstract Background Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic condition in which the pancreas
loses the ability to produce insulin due to an autoimmune destruction of the insulin …

Some studies have reported an association between overexposure to selenium and risk of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare degenerative disease of motor neurons. From …

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease caused by insulin deficiency (type I) or
dysfunction (type II). Diabetes is a threatening public health concern. It is considered as one …

Selenium (Se) is a trace mineral essential to human health, and is especially abundant in
marine foods consumed by Inuit populations in Nunavik (northern Quebec, Canada) …

Objective Selenium seems to be a risk factor for diabetes mellitus (DM) in recent studies,
opposite to the previous expectation that it may contribute to prevent DM. The authors aimed …

Few studies have investigated the association between selenium and metabolic syndrome.
This study aimed to explore the associations between the serum selenium level and …

The oxidative balance score (OBS) is a measure of combined pro-and anti-oxidant exposure
status, with a higher OBS representing a predominance of anti-over pro-oxidant exposures …