Persistent Organic Pollutants and Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction: Focusing on Type 2 Diabetes

Even though obesity is a well-established risk factor of type 2 diabetes, there is emerging evidence that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), a variety of lipophilic chemicals accumulated in adipose tissue, may be critically involved in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Among various POPs, seru...

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Main Author: Lee, Duk-Hee
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3272548/