Diabetes

An Environment-Wide Association Study (EWAS) on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - Links the disease to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the pesticide heptachlor. [Patel CJ,  et al. 2010. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10746.]

Environmental pollution and diabetes: a neglected association; - Reported a strong correlation between insulin resistance (which can lead to adult onset diabetes) and serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), especially for organochlorine pesticide compounds. [Oliver, AH et al. 2008. The Lancet, Vol. 371, Issue 9609, Pages 287-288]

Incident Diabetes and Pesticide Exposure among Licensed Pesticide Applicators: Agricultural Health Study, 1993–2003 - Finds pesticide applicators with regular exposure to pesticides to be at a greater risk of type-2 diabetes. Seven different pesticides produced an increase in risk.  [Montgomery et al. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 167(10):1235-1246]

Low Dose of Some Persistent Organic Pollutants Predicts Type 2 Diabetes: A Nested Case–Control Study - Study links low dose exposure to some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to type 2 diabetes. [Lee D-H, et al. 2010. Environ Health Perspect 118(9): doi:10.1289/ehp.0901480]

Pesticide Exposure and Self-Reported Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the Agricultural Health Study - Finds exposure of pregnant women to agricultural pesticides during the first trimester may double the risk of gestational diabetes[Saldana, T., et al. Diabetes Care. March 2007 30:529-534]