BPA, Phthalates & Stress: Mechanisms and Interactions for Childhood Obesity
Description: BPA and phthalates are introduced in the environment in massive amounts every year. Understanding the role of chemicals that program obesity requires understanding their interactions with the social environment, as interactions among prenatal obesogenic chemicals and high social stress could explain the observation that obesity tracks along lower SES gradients. A study that addresses all these issues prospectively, rather than cross-sectionally, in a population at high risk such as the Mexican population, is best suited towards identifying successful interventions to mitigate the obesity epidemic. Our results will be directly transferable to similar high-risk U.S. populations, such as Hispanics living in the U.S., and could be generalized to the U.S. population at large.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2012-09-18
End date: 2018-07-31
Investigator: ANDREA BACCARELLI
Institution: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Funded outputs count: 151
Funder award ID: R01ES021357
OpenAlex ID: G8424705192