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Women randomly assigned to metformin at diagnosis had improved blood glucose levels compared with placebo and were less likely to need insulin, but questions remain. ....
E-Mail A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations and mutations, epigenetic alterations, mitochondrial dysfunction, endocrine disruption, altered intercellular communication, altered microbiome communities, and impaired nervous system function. The study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University, and Hasselt University is published in the journal Cell. Every day we learn more about how exposure to pollutants in air, water, soil, and food is harmful to human health, says senior author Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, chair of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Mailman School. Less understood, however, are the specific biological pathways through which these chemicals inflict damage on our bodies. In this paper, we provide ....