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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Rheumatoid arthritis

Causes Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence silica	Good Evidence tobacco smoke	Limited Evidence estrogens / DES pesticides solvents

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Human environmental disease network: a computational model to assess toxicology of contaminants

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Information in this database was originally drawn from these texts:

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.
Rom WM. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers, 1998.

Further references are or will be posted with the displays of individual toxicants.

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Rheumatoid arthritis

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