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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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bisphenol A

CAS number: 80-05-7

Diseases linked to this toxicant    Grouped by strength of evidence

Good Evidence

Altered neurodevelopment with changes in behavior

Altered prostate gland development

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Limited Evidence

Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)

Altered time to sexual maturation (accelerated or delayed puberty)

Benign prostatic hypertrophy

Congenital malformations - general

Genito-urinary malformations (includes male and female)

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

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

Prostate cancer

Reduced fertility - male (infertility and subfertility)

NOTE: The toxicant–disease relationships  shown above were last updated in 2011. The relationships shown here are still valid, but additional research has been conducted since that time. Additional research on this toxicant can be found at this link:

COMPARATIVE TOXICOGENOMICS DATABASE: CURATED RESULTS

This link will direct your search to an external database, the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD). This database is different from, and complementary to, our database.

More information about sources and methods

  • CHE’s Toxicant and Disease Database evaluates existing evidence and categorizes that evidence based on its strength. It is constructed using expert judgment and epidemiological causal inference.
  • The CTD, in contrast, is a continually updated resource that presents information on a broad range of literature on chemical-disease relationships. It also provides data on genes, biological processes, and phenotypes related to chemicals and diseases. It does not categorize information based on strength of evidence,  include an expert judgment process, or draw causal conclusions about toxicant-disease relationships.
  • The link we have provided on this page goes directly to CTD's curated results, which are a subset of the information available through CTD. Curated results in CTD are those for which studies are available on the toxicant-disease relationship.

References for our 2011 disease list

Al-Hiyasat AS, Darmani H, Elbetieha AM. Effects of bisphenol A on adult male mouse fertility. European Journal of Oral Sciences. 2002 Apr;110(2):163-7.

DeBruin LS, Josephy PD. Perspectives on the chemical etiology of breast cancer. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2002 Feb;110 Suppl 1:119-28.

Gupta C. Reproductive malformation of the male offspring following maternal exposure to estrogenic chemicals. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 2000 Jun;224(2):61-8.

Herath CB, Jin W, Watanabe G, Arai K, Suzuki AK, Taya K. Adverse effects of environmental toxicants, octylphenol and bisphenol A, on male reproductive functions in pubertal rats. Endocrine. 2004 Nov;25(2):163-72.

Ho SM, Tang WY et al. Developmental exposure to estradiol and bisphenol A increases susceptibility to prostate carcinogenesis and epigenetically regulates phosphodiesterase type 4 variant 4. Cancer Research. 2006 Jun 1;66(11):5624-32.

Howdeshell KL, Hotchkiss AK, Thayer KA, Vandenbergh JG, vom Saal FS. Exposure to bisphenol A advances puberty. Nature. 1999 Oct 21;401(6755):763-4.

Hunt PA, Koehler KE, Susiarjo M, Hodges CA, Ilagan A, Voigt RC, Thomas S, Thomas BF, Hassold TJ. Bisphenol A exposure causes meiotic aneuploidy in the female mouse. Current Biology. 2003 Apr 1;13(7):546-53.

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