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Environmental Obesogens and Their Impact on Susceptibility to Obesity: New Mechanisms and Chemicals

The incidence of obesity has reached an all-time high, and this increase is observed worldwide. There is a growing need to understand all the factors that contribute to obesity to effectively treat and prevent it and associated comorbidities. The obesogen hypothesis proposes that there are chemicals...

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Autores principales: Egusquiza, Riann Jenay, Blumberg, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7060764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32067051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqaa024
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description The incidence of obesity has reached an all-time high, and this increase is observed worldwide. There is a growing need to understand all the factors that contribute to obesity to effectively treat and prevent it and associated comorbidities. The obesogen hypothesis proposes that there are chemicals in our environment termed obesogens that can affect individual susceptibility to obesity and thus help explain the recent large increases in obesity. This review discusses current advances in our understanding of how obesogens act to affect health and obesity susceptibility. Newly discovered obesogens and potential obesogens are discussed, together with future directions for research that may help to reduce the impact of these pervasive chemicals.
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spelling pubmed-70607642020-03-11 Environmental Obesogens and Their Impact on Susceptibility to Obesity: New Mechanisms and Chemicals Egusquiza, Riann Jenay Blumberg, Bruce Endocrinology Mini-Review The incidence of obesity has reached an all-time high, and this increase is observed worldwide. There is a growing need to understand all the factors that contribute to obesity to effectively treat and prevent it and associated comorbidities. The obesogen hypothesis proposes that there are chemicals in our environment termed obesogens that can affect individual susceptibility to obesity and thus help explain the recent large increases in obesity. This review discusses current advances in our understanding of how obesogens act to affect health and obesity susceptibility. Newly discovered obesogens and potential obesogens are discussed, together with future directions for research that may help to reduce the impact of these pervasive chemicals. Oxford University Press 2020-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7060764/ /pubmed/32067051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqaa024 Text en © Endocrine Society 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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