Verougstraete V

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2004-2006

Study types

  • article 3
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
article 2006
Cadmium, lead and endometriosis
International archives of occupational and environmental health ·doi:10.1007/s00420-006-0114-7

ObjectivesCadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) have been demonstrated to exert endocrine disrupting activities. Their possible role in endometriosis, an oestrogen-dependent disease, is unknown.MethodsWe compared cadmium urinary excretion (CdU) and bl…

article 2006
Environmental and host-associated risk factors in endometriosis and deep endometriotic nodules: A matched case–control study
Environmental research ·doi:10.1016/j.envres.2006.04.004

Peritoneal endometriosis (PE) and deep endometriotic nodules (DEN) are gynecological diseases recently shown to be associated with elevated serum concentrations of organochlorines. The objective of the present study was to compare risk fact…

other 2005
Increased dioxin-like compounds in the serum of women with peritoneal endometriosis and deep endometriotic (adenomyotic) nodules
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.04.001

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the possible association between the body burden of dioxin-like compounds and endometriotic disease. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: Gynecology ward in a university hospital. PATIENT(S): Seventy-one women w…

article 2004
Assessment of cadmium impregnation in women suffering from endometriosis: a preliminary study
Toxicology letters ·doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.07.006

Environmental chemicals with oestrogen-like activity are suspected aetiological factors of endometriosis. In animal experiments, cadmium was recently shown to possess oestrogen-like properties. In the frame of a case-control study designed …