Prenatal and childhood exposure to chlordecone and adiposity of seven-year-old children in the Timoun mother-child cohort study in Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

• Hauptverfasser: Nathalie Costet (Verfasst von), Antoine Lafontaine (Verfasst von), Florence Rouget (Verfasst von), Léah Michineau (Verfasst von), Christine Monfort (Verfasst von), Jean-Pierre Thomé (Verfasst von), Philippe Kadhel (Verfasst von), Luc Multigner (Verfasst von), Sylvaine Cordier (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Exposure to persistent environmental organic pollutants may contribute to the development of obesity among children. Chlordecone is a persistent organochlorine insecticide with estrogenic properties that was used in the French West Indies (1973-1993) and is still present in the s...