Endocrine Disrupting Chemical

A new center devoted to the analysis of endocrine-disrupting chemicals will bring together researchers across disciplines to better collaborate and advocate for policies and legislation benefiting human and environmental health.

The European Commission this month unveiled their new chemicals strategy for sustainability, designed to protect the public from exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and their health effects.

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, particularly phthalates, was linked to ADHD-related behaviors among adolescents, according to results of a cross-sectional analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A was significantly and positively associated with all-cause mortality in U.S. adults, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals negatively affect a wide range of systems throughout the human body and have consequences at every life stage, and clinicians should counsel patients to try to reduce their exposure, according to researchers.

Phthalate exposure may negatively affect sleep quality for midlife women, according to a study published in Menopause.

Although causality is difficult to prove definitively, mounting evidence suggests adverse health consequences of endocrine-disrupting among humans. Recent research links these ubiquitous compounds to pediatric obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and more.

Urinary biomarkers that detect the presence of phthalates were associated with testosterone concentrations among a representative sample of U.S. men, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In this video exclusive, Abby Fleisch, MD, MPH, attending physician in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Maine Medical Center, describes how exposure to common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as the endocrine-disrupting chemicals PFAS — is associated with obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol levels.

WASHINGTON — A class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals known as PFAS may work as an “environmental trigger” to drive multiple adverse endocrine health effects, including obesity, thyroid dysfunction and low bone mineral density, although researchers caution that more studies on potential associations are needed.