Increasing temperatures across the globe, including in Europe, pose one of the biggest threats to human health and wellbeing. Different kinds of inequalities, determined by age, sex/gender, isolation, socio-economic status, occupation, living in the city, and health situation, create vulnerability factors influencing people’s heat-related mortality risk and their daily experiences during summer.
Authors: Małgorzata Wrotek, Iulia Marginean, Zofia Boni, Franciszek Chwałczyk, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Coral Salvador & Barbara Jancewicz
Content type: Research
Published on: 26 April 2025
Metalloestrogens are ionic metals and metalloids that can activate estrogen receptor, and are suspected to play a role in breast cancer occurrence. This study explored the relationship between dietary exposure profiles to metalloestrogens and estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer (ERP-BC) risk among women in the French E3N cohort.
Authors: Florian Saint-Martin, Chloé Marques, Xuan Ren, Emeline Lequy, Francesca Romana Mancini & Pauline Frénoy
Content type: Research
Published on: 17 April 2025
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Philippe Grandjean, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Ruth Etzel, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, USA
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