When Environmental Chemicals Act Like Uncontrolled Medicine

Overview

Journal Trends Endocrinol Metab

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2013 May 11

PMID 23660158

Citations 11

Authors

Linda S Birnbaum

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Abstract

In the same way as medicines are delivered to produce effects in the endocrine system, environmental chemicals can be similarly delivered to produce unwanted endocrine effects, resulting in a staggering increase in several diseases. These effects on endocrine and other physiological systems can have significant population-level impacts and thus require public health approaches to disease control.

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