Plasma organochlorine concentrations and bone ultrasound measurements: a cross-sectional study in peri-and postmenopausal Inuit women from Greenland

• Published in: Environmental Health
• Main Authors: Côté, Suzanne, Ayotte, Pierre, Dodin, Sylvie, Blanchet, Claudine, Mulvad, Gert, Petersen, Henning S, Gingras, Suzanne, Dewailly, Éric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2006
• Subjects: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Greenland; Nuuk; greenlandic; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-5-33; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1476-069X-5-33.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-069X-5-33/fulltext.html; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1476-069X-5-33; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1476-069X-5-33.pdf

Abstract Background Inuit women are highly exposed through their traditional seafood based diet to organochlorine compounds, some of them displaying endocrine disrupting properties. We hypothesized that this exposure might be related to bone characteristics that are altered in osteoporosis, because...