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Also see: Bisphenol A (BPA), Estrogen, and Diabetes Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1990 Jul;163(1 Pt 2):382-7. Effects of oral contraceptives on carbohydrate and lipid metabolisms in a healthy population: the Telecom study. Simon D, Senan C, Garnier P, Saint-Paul M, Garat E, Thibult N, Papoz L. In a cross-sectional study that aimed to identify risk [...]
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1993 Nov;169(5):1223-6. Excessive estradiol secretion in polycystic ovarian disease. Benjamin F, Toles AW, Seltzer VL, Deutsch S. Polycystic ovarian disease is both a hyperestrogenic and a hyperandrogenic syndrome, and all studies have shown that hyperestrogenemia is the result of an elevation of estrone with plasma estradiol levels in the normal follicular [...]
Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2011 Dec 31. [Epub ahead of print] Bisphenol-A acts as a potent estrogen via non-classical estrogen triggered pathways. Alonso-Magdalena P, Ropero AB, Soriano S, García-Arévalo M, Ripoll C, Fuentes E, Quesada I, Nadal A. Bisphenol-A (BPA) is an estrogenic monomer commonly used in the manufacture of numerous consumer products such as food [...]
