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- June 15, 2021
Scientific American: Consequences of DDT Exposure Could Last Generations - Scientific America
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KCRW Los Angeles Public Radio: Sick legacy — how DDT exposure from the past can affect many generations to come | CBC Radio
Read more - April 22, 2021
KCRW Los Angeles Public Radio
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The Hill: New study finds pesticides so strong that women suffer if mothers or even grandmothers were exposed decades before
Read more - April 15, 2021
Environmental Health News: Pesticide DDT linked to increased breast cancer risk generations after exposure
Read more - April 14, 2021
Los Angeles Times: DDT’s toxic legacy can harm granddaughters of women exposed, study shows
Read more - July 8, 2019
Environmental Health Perspectives: All in the Family: What Multigenerational Cohorts Are Revealing about Potential Environmental Impacts on Neurodevelopment
Read more - July 8, 2019
Ensia: What three generations of California families can tell us about the links between our health and our environment
Read more - March 14, 2019
Reuters: DDT Exposure Tied to Breast Cancer Risk for All Women Through Age 54
Six-decade-long study finds 40-year induction period between time of exposure and diagnosis
Read more - Apr. 22, 2016
Science: Irregular periods could boost ovarian cancer risk.
Read more - April 21, 2016
nbcnews: Irregular Periods May Raise Ovarian Cancer Risk, Study Finds.
Read more - September 21, 2015
CBS NEWS: Pregnancy Complications and Cardiovascular Disease Death 50-Year Follow-Up of the Child Health and Development Studies Pregnancy Cohort
Pregnancy reveals important clues about mothers' risk of heart disease. In a 2015 study based on Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) mothers, we found that complications during pregnancy predict a woman's risk of dying from heart disease later in life.
You can find more information about this study here. - June 21, 2015
NBC Nightly News: NBC Nightly news ran a story on the effects of DDT exposure on breast cancer risk. Though banned in 1972, scientists find the lasting effects of DDT, once a "miracle pesticide," responsible for changes in breast tissue cells.
You can see the full article on nbcnews.com. - March 12, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle: DDT exposure in womb tied to hypertension
Read more - February 26, 2013
Environmental Health News: Breast cancer and the environment: Women's exposures early in life could unlock mysteries.
Part 1 | Part 2 - February 26, 2013
Scientific American: Data Stretching Back to 1959 May Explain Link Between Environment and Breast Cancer.
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