PROTOCOL FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSES IN THE STUDY ENTITLED “PESTICIDE
EXPOSURE, ASTHMA AND DIABETES IN UGANDA (PEXADU)” Page 1 Analysis protocol …

Background Type 2 diabetes is an escalating public health problem in Nepal. The current
study aims to assess the prevalence, associated factors, awareness, treatment, and control …

Pyrethroid pesticides have been suggested to be a cause of Parkinson disease and other
neurodegenerative diseases. To investigate this, a cross-sectional study was conducted …

Background Spirometry is the gold standard for diagnosis of impaired pulmonary function,
but is often unavailable in resource-constrained settings. Some authors have suggested …

Introduction and aim Exposure to some insecticides may cause airway obstruction, but
existing evidence is limited by cross-sectional designs and inadequate confounder control …

Objectives The risk of diabetes mellitus may be elevated among persons exposed to some
pesticides, including cholinesterase-inhibiting insecticides (organophosphates and …

This study assessed the burden and correlates of three cardiometabolic risk
factors,(hypertension, diabetes, and overweight/obesity), and their possible clustering …

Objectives To assess whether exposure to specific classes of neuroactive non-
organochlorine insecticides is associated with diabetes mellitus or related metabolic traits …

Objective Epidemiological studies suggest exposure to pesticides to be related to risk of
diabetes mellitus. The objective of the present study was to assess the association between …

METHODS Data collection has previously been described in detail by Gouge et al. 1 Briefly,
16 American troops stationed in Saudi Arabia volunteered for a study on pulmonary function …