Fiona Niedermayer, Kathrin Wolf, Siqi Zhang, Marco Dallavalle, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Lars Schwettmann, Peter Selsam, Barbara Hoffmann, Alexandra Schneider, Annette Peters
BACKGROUND: Promising evidence suggests a link between environmental factors, particularly air pollution, and diabetes and obesity. However, it is still unclear whether men and women are equally susceptible to environmental exposures. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess sex-specific long-term effects of environmental exposures on metabolic diseases. METHODS: We analyzed cross-sectional data from 3,034 participants (53.7% female, aged 53-74 years) from the KORA Fit study (2018/19), a German population-based cohort...
April 18, 2024: Environmental Research