Gunnar Toft — Endo Lab

2026

The Creation of a Weight of Evidence Scoring Database for Risk Factors for Adverse Impacts to Birth Outcomes Using Expert Elicitation.

Birth defects research ·doi:10.1002/bdr2.70011

BackgroundAdverse birth outcomes are important public health measures and account for a substantial public health burden. There is considerable diversity of these health endpoints, as well as in the many factors suspected or recognized to i…

2022

Exposure of Greenlandic Inuit and South African VhaVenda men to the persistent DDT metabolite is associated with an altered sperm epigenome at regions implicated in paternal epigenetic transmission and developmental disease – a cross-sectional study

·doi:10.1101/2022.08.15.504029

Background The persistent organochlorine dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is banned world-wide due to its negative health effects and persistence in the environment. It is exceptionally used as an insecticide for malaria control. Expo…

2012

Association between pregnancy loss and urinary phthalate levels around the time of conception.

Environmental health perspectives ·doi:10.1289/ehp.1103552

BackgroundAnimal studies indicate that some phthalate metabolites may harm female reproductive function.ObjectivesWe assessed the associations between exposure to phthalate metabolites and pregnancy loss.MethodsUsing a previously establishe…

book-chapter 2009

Epidemiological evidence on impaired reproductive function and cancer related to endocrine-disrupting chemicals

·doi:10.1533/9781845695743.1.58

2005

Fertility in four regions spanning large contrasts in serum levels of widespread persistent organochlorines: a cross-sectional study.

Environmental health : a global access science source ·doi:10.1186/1476-069x-4-26

BackgroundPersistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs) may interfere with reproductive function but direct evidence in humans is very limited.MethodsFertility was examined in four regions with contrasting blood levels of POPs. Pregnant women…