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BioMed Central, Environmental Health, 1(13), 2014

DOI: 10.1186/1476-069x-13-6

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Gender and racial/ethnic differences in the associations of urinary phthalate metabolites with markers of diabetes risk: national health and nutrition examination survey 2001–2008

Journal article published in 2014 by Tianyi Huang ORCID, Aditi R. Saxena, Elvira Isganaitis, Tamarra James-Todd
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Abstract Background Phthalates are ubiquitous endocrine disrupting chemicals associated with diabetes. Although women and minorities are more likely to be exposed to phthalates, no prior studies have examined phthalate exposure and markers of diabetes risk evaluating effect modification by gender and race/ethnicity. Methods We analyzed CDC data for 8 urinary phthalate metabolites from 3,083 non-diabetic, non-pregnant participants aged 12-