Environmental Pollution and Thyroid
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 29506
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental epidemiology; statistics; environment and health research; reproductive epidemiology; clinical epidemiology; medical statistics; diseases registries; public health surveillance
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Interests: environmental pollution; environmental epidemiology; endocrine disruptors; thyroid diseases; thyroid cancer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on the impact of environmental pollution on thyroid in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
The proposed Special Issue is intended to cover the evaluation of the association between human exposure to environmental pollutants and its effects on thyroid. Through the production of thyroid hormones (THs), the thyroid gland exerts a crucial function during all stages of life, as it regulates growth, metabolism, and development. Thus, any interference with TH homeostasis may potentially lead to an impact on health.
Moreover, the incidence of thyroid cancer has dramatically increased worldwide over the past several decades, and a growing body of evidence supports the high susceptibility of the thyroid to environmental chemicals (e.g., organic compounds and heavy metals) exhibiting thyroid-disrupting properties, which may act through mechanisms that still need to be completely elucidated. Within this Special Issue, etiological studies—mostly in humans—as well as relevant reviews are invited. Given the multifactorial etiopathogenesis of thyroid dysfunction and the variety of substances and compounds that populations are exposed to daily, epidemiological research on all thyroid diseases as well as on biomarkers of early physiological changes and pre-clinical damages are welcome. Such advancements would be desirable to provide a more accurate exposure assessment and an important public health instrument for identifying early markers and preventing diseases.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to the impact of environmental pollution on the thyroid. The keywords below suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Dr. Fabrizio Bianchi
Dr. Francesca Gorini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Environmental pollution
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals
- EDCs
- Thyroid
- Thyroid hormones
- Thyroid cancer
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