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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood
Science
10 Mar 2021 | Environ Res
Prenatal PFOA appears to adversely affect a child's cognitive development in toddlerhood in the study population.
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Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Maternal Reproductive Health Impacts
Events
9 Mar 2021
In the fifth webinar in our Generation Chemical series on the toxic environmental exposures and maternal reproductive health impacts.
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Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Promotes Doxycycline-induced Liver Tumor Progression in Male Kras Transgenic Zebrafish
Science
9 Mar 2021 | Environ Res
PFOS was found to induce tumor-promoting effects in a human model species.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and calcifications of the coronary and aortic arteries in adults with prediabetes: Results from the diabetes prevention program outcomes study
Science
2 Mar 2021 | Environ Int
Prediabetic adults with higher plasma concentrations of select PFAS had a higher risk of heart disease.
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Perfluorooctanesulfonate and perfluorooctanoate exacerbate airway inflammation in asthmatic mice and in vitro
Science
23 Feb 2021 | Sci Total Environ
PFAS exposure decreased mice’s ability to regulate inflammation in their respiratory organs.
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Gillibrand, Rep. Maloney Announce Bill To Protect Firefighters From PFAS
Policy
22 Feb 2021
New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney were in Newburgh Monday announcing legislation to protect firefighters from PFAS.
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Regulating PFAS as a Chemical Class under the California Safer Consumer Products Program
Science
22 Feb 2021 | Environ Health Perspect
In this commentary, we present the rationale adopted by the State of California's DTSC for regulating PFAS as a class in certain consumer products.
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Endocrine Disruptor Potential of Short- and Long-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)-A Synthesis of Current Knowledge with Proposal of Molecular Mechanism
Science
21 Feb 2021 | Int J Mol Sci
This paper synthesizes the current literature reports on the presence, bioaccumulation and, particularly, endocrine toxicity of selected long- and short-chain PFASs, with a special emphasis on the mechanisms underlying their endocrine actions.
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Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances in early pregnancy and risk of sporadic first trimester miscarriage
Science
16 Feb 2021 | Sci Rep
Unknown mechanisms contribute to PFOA exposure and miscarriage during the second half of the first trimester.
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Thyroid Disrupting Effects of Old and New Generation PFAS
Science
9 Feb 2021 | Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
The aim of the present paper is to review recent data on the effects of legacy and novel PFAS on thyroid function.
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Perfluoroalkyl substances and sex hormones in postmenopausal women: NHANES 2013-2016
Science
9 Feb 2021 | Environ Int
n-PFOA and PFHxS were positively associated with endocrine disruption in postmenopausal women, particularly among the overweight.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in serum and associations with food consumption and use of personal care products in the Norwegian biomonitoring study from the EU project EuroMix
Science
9 Feb 2021 | Environ Res
The participants in the EuroMix study were exposed to PFASs through their diet and personal care product use.
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Associations of exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances individually and in mixtures with persistent infections: Recent findings from NHANES 1999–2016
Science
8 Feb 2021 | Env. Poll.
PFAS were positively associated with pathogen burden, especially in adolescents.
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The occurrence of PFAS in human placenta and their binding abilities to human serum albumin and organic anion transporter 4
Science
2 Feb 2021 | Environ Pollut
Placental transfer of PFAS was found to be closely related to chain length.
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Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances during fetal life and hospitalization for infectious disease in childhood: A study among 1,503 children from the Odense Child Cohort
Science
2 Feb 2021 | Environ Int
PFOS was associated with both an increase in general infections and respiratory tract infections with PFOA only being associated with the latter.