| Title |
Associations between Organochlorine Pesticides and Vitamin D Deficiency in the U.S. Population
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0030093 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jin-Hoon Yang, Yu-Mi Lee, Sang-Geun Bae, David R. Jacobs, Duk-Hee Lee |
| Abstract |
Recently low dose organochlorine (OC) pesticides have been strongly linked to various chronic diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Both field and animal studies have suggested a possibility that persistent lipophilic chemicals like OC pesticides can cause vitamin D deficiency, but there have been no human studies of exposure to any chemical as a possible cause of vitamin D deficiency. This study was performed to examine if serum concentrations of OC pesticides were associated with serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in the U.S. general population. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 66 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 63 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 12% |
| Researcher | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 11% |
| Other | 15 | 23% |
| Unknown | 13 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 24% |