Thibault Fiolet, Geneviève Nicolas, Corinne Casagrande, Zsuzsanna Horvath, Pauline Frenoy, Elisabete Weiderpass, Marc J Gunter, Jonas Manjer, Emily Sonestedt, Domenico Palli, Vittorio Simeon, Rosario Tumino, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, José María Huerta, Miguel Rodriguez-Barranco, Eunate Abilleira, Carlotta Sacerdote, Matthias B Schulze, Alicia K Heath, Charlotta Rylander, Guri Skeie, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Anne Tjønneland, Anja Olsen, Valeria Pala, Marina Kvaskoff, Inge Huybrechts, Francesca Romana Mancini
Dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are toxic, endocrine disruptors and persistent chemicals for which the main exposure source is diet due to their bioaccumulation and biomagnification in food chains. Cohort studies in the general populations have reported inconsistent associations between these chemicals in serum/plasma and mortality. Our objective was to study the association between dietary intake of 17 dioxins and 35 PCBs and all-cause, cancer-specific and cardiovascular-specific mortalities were assessed in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort...
November 20, 2023: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health