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Exposure to chlordecone and the risk of prostate cancer. The Karuprostate Study, Guadeloupe (France).
Chlordecone, an insecticide with estrogen-like hormonal properties, was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies from 1973 to 1993, leading to soil contamination and...
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Assessment and Management of Dietary Risk Associated with Chlordecone for the Populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Chlordecone contamination, first detected in the public water supply in 1999 and then in certain root vegetables in 2002 in Guadeloupe and Martinique, led to a series of measures...
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Sidebar. The ESCAL and Calbas dietary surveys in the French West Indies.
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Sidebar. Chlordecone: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among the Caribbean Population.
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Exposure of the Caribbean population to chlordecone.
Since 1999, several studies have estimated chlordecone exposure among the populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique, either through direct measurement in biological matrices (blood,...
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Chlordecone in the Caribbean: An Updated Assessment of Health Risks [Editorial]
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From water pollution to food contamination: the health management of chlordecone in the Caribbean.
The rediscovery of chlordecone in surface waters in the French West Indies sparked a significant mobilization, first locally and then at the national level. A pesticide used to control...
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Quality of life among people with type 2 diabetes living in mainland France: multiple associated factors. Between 2007
Introduction - Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects quality of life (QOL). Our objective was to identify the sociodemographic characteristics and health status indicators...
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Typhoid and paratyphoid fever in France between 2004 and 2009
Between 2004 and 2009, 615 cases of typhoid fever, 178 cases of paratyphoid A, 82 cases of paratyphoid B, and 6 cases of paratyphoid C were reported in France. The annual incidence of...
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Characteristics of influenza-related mortality during the 2009–2010 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in France
Introduction - This article compares the demographic and medical characteristics of influenza-related deaths during the 2009–2010 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic with those of seasonal...
