Remember those frightening stories from last year about the endocrine disruptors in your make-up?
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Scientists have been leery about BPA since the 1930s, when it was discovered to be an endocrine disruptor.
Berglund L, Brunzell JD, Goldberg AC, et al. Evaluation and treatment of hypertriglyceridemia: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline.
Three-quarters have involved my specialty, endocrine surgery surgery for endocrine organs such as the thyroid, the parathyroid, and the adrenal glands.
The same receptor helps regulate satiety and plays a part in a multitude of cravings in the brain and endocrine system.
It is not known whether the oils could have similar effects on the endocrine systems of young girls, teenagers or adults.
Zoeller points to fundamental issues with the way endocrine disruptors are studied and the link between independent studies and federal regulators.
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Theo Colborn, PhD, is President TEDX ( The Endocrine Disruption Exchange) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Tell-tale signs of underlying medical problems include significant changes in energy, weight, appetite or sleep, which could be due to an endocrine disorder.
That the world's policymakers need to pay more attention to global warming, AIDS orphans, endocrine disruptors, nuclear proliferation and other very important problems.
This can include second cancers, coronary artery disease, heart failure, lung problems and endocrine disorders (growth function and slow or delayed sexual development).
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Other synthetic hormones and endocrine disrupters common in the modern world seem to have a similar impact, and not just in the womb.
Afinitor, known generically as everolimus, is approved for kidney cancer and for neuro-endocrine pancreatic cancer, the type that felled Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs.
Individuals with high fasting triglyceride levels be evaluated for secondary causes of hyperlipidemia, including endocrine conditions and medications, and that treatment be focused on secondary causes.
Endocrine disorders like thyroid disease can cause irregular periods, too, as can polycystic ovary disease, a hormonal glitch that may lead to obesity, acne, and excessive hair growth.
Worse still, some of those fish are full of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which at worst, cause cancer and at best wreck humans' immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems.
Just this summer, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy recognizing that BPA is an endocrine-disrupting chemical and urged a ban on the sale of these products.
It is possible that the long-marginalised scientists of the environmental-health field are right, and that these endocrine disrupters do play a part in explaining the ongoing trends in obesity.
Stripers there happen to be chock full of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which at worst, cause cancer in humans and at best wreck immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems.
An impartial evaluation showed that hospital admission rates were 7.4% lower for cardiovascular disease, 13.2% lower for cancers and 20.7% lower for endocrine and metabolic diseases for highly engaged members.
"It looks like we have found a key genetic gatekeeper of puberty in mice and men, " said Dr William Crowley Jr, chief of the reproductive endocrine unit and one of those involved in the study.
Because the endocrine disruption hypothesis suggests that the fetus and newborns could be vulnerable to BPA in ways children or adults would not be, the focus of these PK studies has been on the perinatal period.
You may not have signs or symptoms if your pheochromocytoma is associated with a genetic condition, such as multiple endocrine neoplasia, type II (MEN II), because it's likely to be found on a scan before symptoms start.
Two years after her wedding and still not pregnant, the 26-year-old visited a gynecologist, who diagnosed her with polycystic ovary syndrome, an endocrine disorder that can cause women to stop ovulating, gain unusual weight, develop irregular periods or skin problems and grow abnormal facial and body hair.
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One of the reasons why I wrote that piece for Toxicological Sciences is because it gets me genuinely angry as a scientist when supposedly fellow-scientists not only disregard scientific method and principles, but also discredit the whole field of endocrine disruptors and environmental impacts on human health.
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