Adverse Health Effects of Emerging Contaminants on Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Overview

Journal Front Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 Mar 13

PMID 36908414

Authors

Xuejie Chen

Sidan Wang

Xueyi Mao

Xin Xiang

Shuyu Ye

Jie Chen

Angran Zhu

Yifei Meng

Xiya Yang

Shuyu Peng

Minzi Deng

Xiaoyan Wang

Affiliations

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Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is becoming increasingly prevalent with the improvement of people's living standards in recent years, especially in urban areas. The emerging environmental contaminant is a newly-proposed concept in the progress of industrialization and modernization, referring to synthetic chemicals that were not noticed or researched before, which may lead to many chronic diseases, including IBD. The emerging contaminants mainly include microplastics, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, chemical herbicides, heavy metals, and persisting organic pollutants. In this review, we summarize the adverse health effect of these emerging contaminants on humans and their relationships with IBD. Therefore, we can better understand the impact of these new emerging contaminants on IBD, minimize their exposures, and lower the future incidence of IBD.

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