PMID- 24802877 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150116 LR - 20240503 IS - 1422-0067 (Electronic) IS - 1422-0067 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 5 DP - 2014 May 5 TI - Association of dioxin and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with diabetes: epidemiological evidence and new mechanisms of beta cell dysfunction. PG - 7787-811 LID - 10.3390/ijms15057787 [doi] AB - The worldwide explosion of the rates of diabetes and other metabolic diseases in the last few decades cannot be fully explained only by changes in the prevalence of classical lifestyle-related risk factors, such as physical inactivity and poor diet. For this reason, it has been recently proposed that other "nontraditional" risk factors could contribute to the diabetes epidemics. In particular, an increasing number of reports indicate that chronic exposure to and accumulation of a low concentration of environmental pollutants (especially the so-called persistent organic pollutants (POPs)) within the body might be associated with diabetogenesis. In this review, the epidemiological evidence suggesting a relationship between dioxin and other POPs exposure and diabetes incidence will be summarized, and some recent developments on the possible underlying mechanisms, with particular reference to dioxin, will be presented and discussed. FAU - De Tata, Vincenzo AU - De Tata V AD - Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma, 55, Scuola Medica, 56126 Pisa, Italy. vincenzo.detata@med.unipi.it. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20140505 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Mol Sci JT - International journal of molecular sciences JID - 101092791 RN - 0 (Dioxins) RN - 0 (Endocrine Disruptors) RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Diabetes Mellitus/*chemically induced/epidemiology/metabolism/*pathology MH - Dioxins/*adverse effects/toxicity MH - Endocrine Disruptors/*adverse effects/toxicity MH - Environmental Pollutants/*adverse effects/toxicity MH - Humans MH - Incidence MH - Insulin-Secreting Cells/drug effects/metabolism/*pathology MH - Risk Factors MH - Signal Transduction/drug effects PMC - PMC4057704 EDAT- 2014/05/08 06:00 MHDA- 2015/01/17 06:00 PMCR- 2014/05/01 CRDT- 2014/05/08 06:00 PHST- 2014/02/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/04/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/04/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/05/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/05/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/01/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijms15057787 [pii] AID - ijms-15-07787 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijms15057787 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Mol Sci. 2014 May 5;15(5):7787-811. doi: 10.3390/ijms15057787.