Rubin C

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2005-2008

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article 2008
Serum dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, and endometriosis: A case-control study in Atlanta
Chemosphere ·doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.10.005

Endometriosis among women of reproductive age can result in pain and infertility. The objectives of this study were to test if there is a relation between endometriosis and serum dioxin concentrations as expressed by total toxic equivalence…

article 2007
Endometriosis Among Women Exposed to Polybrominated Biphenyls
Annals of epidemiology ·doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2006.11.005

PurposeWe examined the association between endometriosis and exposure to polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) among women inadvertently exposed to PBBs in 1973.MethodsSerum PBBs and PCBs were measured in the …

2007
Risk of spontaneous abortion among women exposed to polybrominated biphenyls.
Environmental research ·doi:10.1016/j.envres.2006.11.010

Accidental contamination of livestock in Michigan in 1973 with polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) led to the establishment of a registry of exposed individuals in 1976. At the time of enrollment, serum was collected and analyzed for PBBs and p…

article 2005
Associations between serum levels of selected organochlorine compounds and endometriosis in infertile Japanese women
Environmental research ·doi:10.1016/j.envres.2005.04.003

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been proposed as risk factors for endometriosis. Persistent organochlorine compounds, a group of suspected EDCs, are present to some extent in almost all human adipose tissue and blood via the food…