Environmental and Occupational Exposures and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in New England.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study contributes to a growing body of literature implicating occupational- and hobby-related toxicant exposures in ALS etiology. These epidemiologic study results also provide motivation for future evaluation of water-body-related risk factors.
PMID: 28122372 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neuro-Degenerative Diseases - January 25, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Andrew AS, Caller TA, Tandan R, Duell EJ, Henegan PL, Field NC, Bradley WG, Stommel EW Tags: Neurodegener Dis Source Type: research