Pesticide DDT linked to slow metabolism, obesity and diabetes, mouse study finds

Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 03:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study in mice is the first to show that developmental exposure to DDT increases the risk of females later developing metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of conditions that include increased body fat, blood glucose, and cholesterol.

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