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Toxicant and Disease Database

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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pesticides

Diseases linked to this toxicant    Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence

Arrhythmias

Contact dermatitis - allergic

Contact dermatitis - irritant

Peripheral neuropathy

Reduced fertility - male (infertility and subfertility)

Good Evidence

Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)

Adult-onset leukemias

Aplastic anemia

Asthma - irritant

Bone cancer/Ewings sarcoma

Brain cancer - childhood

Childhood leukemias

Cognitive impairment (includes impaired learning, impaired memory, and decreased attention span) / mental retardation / developmental delay

Decreased coordination / dysequilibrium

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Genito-urinary malformations (includes male and female)

Hormonal changes (levels of circulating sex hormones - FSH/LH, Inhibin, and/or estrogens, progesterones, androgens, prolactin)

Immune suppression

Low birth weight / small for gestational age / intra-uterine growth retardation

Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)

Menstrual disorders (abnormal bleeding, short cycles, long cycles, irregular cycles, painful periods)

Multiple myeloma

Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)

Myelodysplastic syndrome (pre-leukemia)

Pancreatic cancer

Parkinson's disease / movement disorders

Peripheral neuropathy

Photosensitivity

Porphyria (toxic)

Prostate cancer

Psychiatric disturbances (disorientation, hallucinations, psychosis, delirium, paranoias, anxiety/depression, emotional lability, mood changes, euphoria)

Reduced fertility - female (infertility and subfertility)

Renal (kidney) cancer

Seizures

Skin cancer (non-melanoma)

Spasticity / myoclonus

Testicular cancer

Limited Evidence

Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)

Acute hepatocellular injury (hepatitis)s

ADD/ADHD, hyperactivity

Adult-onset leukemias

ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)

Alzheimer's

Angiosarcoma (hepatic)

Aplastic anemia

Autoimmune antibodies (positive ANA, anti-DNA, RF, etc.)

Behavioral problems

Bladder cancer

Brain cancer - adult

Brain cancer - childhood

Breast cancer

Bronchitis - acute

Bronchitis - chronic

Cardiac congenital malformations

Cervical cancer

Childhood leukemias

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Cirrhosis

Colorectal cancer

Congenital malformations - general

Decreased vision (includes blindness, retinopathy, optic neuropathy)

Early onset menopause

Esophageal cancer

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Genito-urinary malformations (includes male and female)

Gulf War Syndrome

Hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer)

Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)

Immune suppression

Laryngeal cancer

Lung cancer

Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)

Melanoma (skin cancer)

Multiple chemical sensitivity

Multiple sclerosis

Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)

Nasopharyngeal / sino-nasal cancer

Neural tube defects / CNS malformations

Oral clefts (cleft lip and palate)

Ovarian cancer

Pancreatic cancer

Parkinson's disease / movement disorders

Pneumonia

Prostate cancer

Reduced fertility - female (infertility and subfertility)

Reduced fertility - male (infertility and subfertility)

Renal (kidney) cancer

Retinoblastoma

Rheumatoid arthritis

Skeletal malformations

Soft tissue sarcomas

Stomach cancer

Testicular cancer

Testicular toxicity

Thrombocytopenia

Thrombocytopenic purpura

Thyroid cancer

Thyroid disorders - hypothyroidism

Uterine cancer

Vasculitis

Wilm's tumor

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