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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Pesticides Linked to Endometriosis Risk


By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

Why some women and not others get endometriosis — the growth of uterine tissue outside the uterus that can cause pain and infertility — is not known, but researchers have come up with one possible contributing factor: pesticide poisoning.
Scientists studied 248 women with surgically confirmed endometriosis and 538 healthy controls. They measured blood levels of two pesticides, mirex and beta HCH, which persist in some fish and dairy products even though their use in the United States has been banned for decades. The studyappears online in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Read more: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/pesticides-linked-to-endometriosis/?_r=0
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