Toxicant and Disease Database
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The CHE Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. Diseases and or toxicants can be viewed by utilizing the search options below. See a full description of the database and our methodology.
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ethylene glycol ethers
Diseases linked to this toxicant Grouped by strength of evidence
References for our 2011 disease list
Correa A, Gray RH, Cohen R, Rothman N, Shah F, Seacat H, Corn M. Ethylene glycol ethers and risks of spontaneous abortion and subfertility. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1996. 143(7): p. 707-717.
El-Zein RA, Abdel-Rahman SZ, Morris DL, Legator MS. Exposure to ethylene glycol monomethyl ether: clinical and cytogenetic findings. Archives of Environmental Health. 2002 Jul-Aug;57(4):371-6.
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). IRIS Assessments. Accessed in 2010.
Klaassen CD, Ed. Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 6th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill 2001.
LaDou J, Ed. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 3rd Edition. New York: Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill Company, 2004.
Landrigan PJ, Garg A. Chronic effects of toxic environmental exposures on children's health. Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology. 2002;40(4):449-56.
Rom WM. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 1998.
