Experts say that food and supplies in life may contain environmental hormones. (Picture taken from freepik)
[Health Channel/Comprehensive Report]Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the most common liver diseases, and according to statistics, the diagnosis rate of children is increasing, affecting 6-10% of children and 34% of obese children. According to foreign media “Science Daily(Science daily) reported that studies have pointed out that if pregnant women are exposed to environmental hormones during pregnancy, the fetus in the womb will be exposed to environmental hormones prematurely, which increases the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Environmental hormones are a broad class of environmental pollutants that interfere with endocrine secretion, including in pesticides, plastics, flame retardants, and toxic metals, even in furniture or baby products, and environmental hormones that interfere with the body’s hormonal and metabolic systems .
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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States collected the blood and urine of 1,108 pregnant women from 2003-2010, and the umbilical cord blood of their newborns to detect 45 chemicals, including environmental hormones such as organochlorines and organophosphates and so on, and keep following their children. When the children were 6-11 years old, the researchers measured substances in the children’s blood, including enzymes that indicate risk of liver disease and keratin 18, and found that the values of these substances were higher than those in the original cord blood.thisResearchPublished in JAMA Network Open.
Damaskini Valvi, who conducted the study, said that environmental hormones are deeply embedded in our lives, in the food we eat, the water we drink and our daily products, and they are a serious public health problem. Another performer, Vishal Midya, said the study could help prevent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease early.
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