TY - JOUR T1 - Work in Brief JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - i LP - i VL - 66 IS - 3 A2 - Loomis, Dana Y1 - 2009/03/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/66/3/i.abstract N2 - The search for explanations for the worldwide increase in overweight has focused mostly on diet and exercise, but environmental agents may also play a part. It has been hypothesized, for example, that persistent organic pesticides may be environmental “obesogens”. Karmaus et al 1 investigate this possibility in a study of adult daughters of a cohort of Michgan, USA, women enrolled beginning in 1973. Daughters of the women were examined between 2001 and 2006 and the mothers’ levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) … ER -