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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Typically, sugar-laden snacks, processed meats and a sedentary lifestyle are cited as the usual suspects in triggering type two diabetes. However, experts have now signalled an unexpected risk factor - and it's something completely invisible.
Alarmingly, this culprit is pollution or, more specifically, 'styrene' and 'ethylbenzene', which are both derived from petroleum and used in manufacturing synthetic rubber and resins. However, ethylbenzene is not only prevalent in industrial uses but vehicle emissions, pesticides, and even tobacco smoke.
Styrene on the other hand can be inhaled from the 'indoor air' contaminated by vapours emanating from building materials, tobacco, vehicle exhausts, and photocopiers, states the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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Alarmingly, this culprit is pollution or, more specifically, 'styrene' and 'ethylbenzene', which are both derived from petroleum and used in manufacturing synthetic rubber and resins. However, ethylbenzene is not only prevalent in industrial uses but vehicle emissions, pesticides, and even tobacco smoke.
Styrene on the other hand can be inhaled from the 'indoor air' contaminated by vapours emanating from building materials, tobacco, vehicle exhausts, and photocopiers, states the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Diabetes warning issued as experts say it's linked to invisible cause
A new study by Chinese researchers has identified a link between type two diabetes and two common air pollutants, which are produced by car emissions and tobacco smoke
www.walesonline.co.uk