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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A fungicide used on farm crops can induce insulin resistance, a new tissue-culture study finds, providing another piece of evidence linking environmental pollutants to diabetes. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society?s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston.
?For the first time, we?ve ascribed a molecular mechanism by which an environmental pollutant can induce insulin resistance, lending credence to the hypothesis that some synthetic chemicals might be contributors to the diabetes epidemic,? said investigator Robert Sargis, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in the endocrinology division at the University of Chicago.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/590733/?sc=sphr&xy=5027806
?For the first time, we?ve ascribed a molecular mechanism by which an environmental pollutant can induce insulin resistance, lending credence to the hypothesis that some synthetic chemicals might be contributors to the diabetes epidemic,? said investigator Robert Sargis, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in the endocrinology division at the University of Chicago.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/590733/?sc=sphr&xy=5027806