Prevalence of metabolic syndrome associated with body burden levels of dioxin and related compounds among Japan's general population.

Environ Health Perspect · 2009 · PMC2679600 · PMID 19440495

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(2007) also reported that the risk of metabolic syndrome was highest in the third quartile and then plateaued in the case of DL-PCBs, whereas we found a significant trend for the association between the TEQ of DL-PCBs and metabolic syndrome.

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Metabolic syndrome has recently become prevalent, whereas the body burden levels of PCDDs/PCDFs and DL-PCBs have a decreasing trend ( Konishi et al. 2001 ; Porta 2006 ; Wittsiepe et al. 2000 ).

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