Long-term Pesticide Exposure May Increase Risk Of Diabetes

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes. The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute.

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