Showing posts with label DDT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DDT. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2018

First Biomarker Link Between DDT and Autism in the Offspring!




"A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the offspring." Read article...

 First biomarker evidence of DDT-autism link, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health . Medical Press. August 16, 2018 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-biomarker-evidence-ddt-autism-link.html

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Exposure to DDT in the Womb Assocaited with Breast Cancer in Adulthood!

A five-decade study of US women has found that those exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT in the womb were four times as likely to get breast cancer.

Study Links Pesticide DDT To Higher Breast Cancer Risk. Medical Observer. July 6, 2015. http://medicalobserverph.com/adulthealth-study-links-pesticide-ddt-to-higher-breast-cancer-risk/