Pesticides Increase Diabetes Risk

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Pesticides Increase Diabetes Risk
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 1:25pm
Exposure to pesticides increases a person's risk of diabetes, say U.S. researchers who analyzed data from 31,787 licensed pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa. Of those, 1,171 reported a diagnosis of diabetes over five years.

When the researchers looked at specific pesticides, the increased risk of diabetes ranged from 20 percent to 200 percent. The study appears in the American Journal of Epidemiology.


Read more of the study at Your Total Health;


http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/pesticides-increase-diabetes-risk.html

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