Abstract < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > Disparities in women ’s reproductive health outcomes across the life course have been well-documented. Endocrine disrupting chemicals may be one factor driving disparities, as studies suggest exposure to certain environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as certain phthalates, bisphenol A, parabens, and polybr om..."> Abstract < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > Disparities in women ’s reproductive health outcomes across the life course have been well-documented. Endocrine disrupting chemicals may be one factor driving disparities, as studies suggest exposure to certain environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as certain phthalates, bisphenol A, parabens, and polybr om..." /> Abstract < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > Disparities in women ’s reproductive health outcomes across the life course have been well-documented. Endocrine disrupting chemicals may be one factor driving disparities, as studies suggest exposure to certain environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as certain phthalates, bisphenol A, parabens, and polybr om..." />

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Women ’s Reproductive Health Outcomes: Epidemiological Examples Across the Life Course

< h3 class= " a-plus-plus " > Abstract < /h3 > < p class= " a-plus-plus " > Disparities in women ’s reproductive health outcomes across the life course have been well-documented. Endocrine disrupting chemicals may be one factor driving disparities, as studies suggest exposure to certain environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as certain phthalates, bisphenol A, parabens, and polybr ominated diphenyl ethers, is higher in non-Whites. Yet, a limited amount of research has focused on these chemical exposures as a potential mediator of racial/ethnic differences in women’s reproductive health outcomes, such as pubertal development, fibroids, infertility, and pregnancy complication s. Given that race/ethnicity is a social construct, the purpose of this review was to present the current state of the literature on racial/ethnic disparities in both environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, as well as associations between these chemicals and selected women’s reproductive hea lth outcomes. Our goal was to evaluate literature from populations based in the USA to (1) characterize racial/ethnic differences in environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and (2) systematically review literature on environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and selected women’s health out comes in populations containing more than one racial/ethnic group. This review highlights the need for future work in determining whether higher exposures to some environmental endocrine disrupting c...
Source: Current Epidemiology Reports - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research