Objective
Temporal and regional trends of malignant and reproductive disorders have renewed interest in environmental pollutants. Bio persistent organ chlorines (POC) in food are an important source of environmental exposure to xenohormones. The objective of this project is to characterize the impact of dietary Pocks on human fertility and to provide evidence in support of or against the environmental hormone hypothesis. Inuit people in Greenland, Swedish fishermen ' s families and population samples from Poland and Ukraine are selected for studies of time taken to conceive, semen quality and endocrine disruption. The study includes people with documented body burdens of Pocks ranking among the highest in the world. We set out to corroborate or reject that high dietary intake of POC causes delayed time to conception because of impaired spermatogenesis due to disturbed gonad development in prenatal life. The project will contribute scientific knowledge as basis for appropriate assessment and management of risk related to consumption of POC contaminated diet and provide strong evidence in support of or against the hormonal disruption hypothesis.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- social sciencessociologydemographyfertility
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineobstetrics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryhalogens
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8000 C AARHUS C
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