Role of Environmental Pollutants in Endometriosis

Sajal Gupta, Avi Harlev, Ashok Agarwal, Beena J. Premkumar, Cansu Yazar, Roshni Kakaiya
In: SpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology · 2015 · pp. 49–60 · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18308-4_6 · W1945041333
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This review highlights environmental pollutants like dioxins, pesticides, and bisphenols as potential contributors to endometriosis etiology and pathogenesis.

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This paper is a narrative review examining how environmental pollutants, especially endocrine-disrupting compounds such as dioxins, organochlorine pesticides, bisphenols, and phthalates, may influence the onset and progression of endometriosis in both human and animal contexts. It highlights mechanistic pathways centered on endocrine and reproductive disruption, including aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling, and summarizes epidemiologic and experimental findings while noting that study results are contradictory. A key limitation explicitly emphasized is the inconsistency across reviewed studies, which complicates drawing definitive conclusions. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reviews evidence linking environmental toxicant exposure (e.g., dioxins and other endocrine disruptors) to endometriosis pathogenesis and etiology.

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