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Bulaşıcı Olmayan Hastalıkların Gelişiminde Endokrin Bozucu Maddeler: Geleneksel Derleme
Endocrine Disrupting Substances in the Development of Non-Communicable Diseases: Traditional Review
Fatma ULUSOYa, Mehmet ULUSOYb, Arzu AKCANc
aAkdeniz Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Hemşirelik ABD, Antalya, TÜRKİYE
bSüleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, Su Bilimleri ABD, Isparta, TÜRKİYE
cAkdeniz Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi, Hemşirelik ABD, Antalya, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Nurs Sci. 2021;13(3):725-34
doi: 10.5336/nurses.2020-79987
Article Language: TR
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 Toplumda yaygın olarak görülen obezite, diabetes mellitus (DM), hipertansiyon (HT) ve kardiyovasküler hastalıkların (KVH) prevalansı gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Her biri, diğeri için risk faktörü olabilen bu hastalıkların ortak özellikleri kronik olmalarıdır. Birey ve ailesinin yaşam kalitesini bozan, üretkenliğini azaltan, sakatlığa ve erken yaşam yılı kaybına neden olan bu hastalıklar, toplum ekonomisine de büyük bir yük getirmektedir. Obezite ve komorbiditelerinin etiyolojisi çok faktörlüdür, ancak geleneksel nedensel faktörlerin kanıtlarına rağmen endokrin bozucu aktivitesi olan çevresel toksik maddelerin rolü yakın zamanda vurgulanmaktadır. Yeni yapılan çalışmalarda, endokrin bozucu madde (EBM) maruziyeti ile obezite, DM, HT ve KVH arasında pozitif ilişki olduğuna dair artan kanıtlar vardır. Gerçekten de çok az konsantrasyonlarda bile vücuda alınan bu EBM'ler, ciddi sağlık sorunlarına neden olabilir. Bu hastalıkların bilinen risk faktörleriyle mücadelesinde, küresel ve ulusal düzeyde yapılan önleme ve kontrol programlarına rağmen prevalanslarındaki devam eden artış, yeni bir risk faktörü olan EBM'lere dikkat çekmiştir. Avrupa Birliği tarafından belirlenmiş olan başlıca EBM'ler, bisfenol A, fitalatlar, perflorlu bileşikler, poliklorlu bifeniller, dioksinler ve furanlardır. Güncel alan ile ilgili yapılan araştırmaların, yurt dışına göre Türkiye'de çok daha az sayıda olduğu görülmektedir. Bu derlemede, EBM'lerin bulaşıcı olmayan çeşitli hastalıkların gelişimindeki rolünü değerlendirmek amaçlanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Endokrin bozucu maddeler; obezite; diyabet; hipertansiyon; kardiyovasküler hastalıklar
ABSTRACT
 The prevalence of obesity, diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HT) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which are common in the society, is increasing day by day. The common characteristics of these diseases, each of which can be a risk factor for the other, is that they are chronic. These diseases, which impair the quality of life of the individual and her family, reduce one's productivity, cause disability and early loss of life years, also place a huge burden on the community economy. The etiology of obesity and its comorbidities is multifactorial, but despite the evidence of traditional causative factors, the role of environmental toxic substances with endocrine-disrupting activity has recently been emphasized. In recent studies, there is increasing evidence of a positive association between endocrine disrupting substance (EDS) exposure and obesity, DM, HT, and CVD. Indeed, these EDSs taken into the body even in very low concentrations can cause serious health problems. In the fight against known risk factors of these diseases, the ongoing increase in their prevalence despite the prevention and control programs carried out at the global and national level has drawn attention to the EDSs, a new risk factor. The main EDSs determined by the European Union are bisphenol A, phthalates, perfluorinated compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans. It is observed that research conducted in the current field is much fewer in Turkey than abroad. In this review, it is aimed to evaluate the role of EDSs in the development of various non-communicable diseases.

Keywords: Endocrine disrupting substances; obesity; diabetes; hypertension; cardiovascular diseases
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4.2. People benefiting from the services provided by "Turkiye Klinikleri" and using the website can use the "SITE" only according to the law and only for personal reasons. Users have the criminal and civil liability for every process and action they take in the "SITE". Every USER agrees, declares and undertakes that they will not proceed by any function or action infringement of rights of "Turkiye Klinikleri"s and/or other third parties', they are the exclusive right holder on usage, processing, storage, made public and revealing any written, visual or auditory information reported to Turkiye Klinikleri" and/or "SITE" to the third parties. "USER" agrees and undertakes that s/he will not duplicate, copy, distribute, process, the pictures, text, visual and auditory images, video clips, files, databases, catalogs and lists within the "SITE", s/he will not be using these actions or with other ways to compete with "Turkiye Klinikleri", directly or indirectly.

4.3. The services provided and the context published within the "SITE" by third parties is not under the responsibility of "Turkiye Klinikleri", institutions collaborated with "Turkiye Klinikleri", "Turkiye Klinikleri" employee and directors, "Turkiye Klinikleri" authorized salespeople. Commitment to accuracy and legality of the published information, context, visual and auditory images provided by any third party are under the full responsibility of the third party. "Turkiye Klinikleri" does not promise and guarantee the safety, accuracy and legality of the services and context provided by a third party.

4.4. "USER"s cannot act against "Turkiye Klinikleri", other "USER"s and third parties by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" has no direct and/or indirect responsibility for any damage a third party suffered or will suffer regarding "USER"s actions on the "SITE" against the rules of the hereby "Terms of Use" and the law.

4.5. "USER"s accept and undertake that the information and context they provided to the "SITE" are accurate and legal. "Turkiye Klinikleri" is not liable and responsible for promising and guaranteeing the verification of the information and context transmitted to "Turkiye Klinikleri" by the "USER"s, or uploaded, changed and provided through the "SITE" by them and whether these information are safe, accurate and legal.

4.6. "USER"s agree and undertake that they will not perform any action leading to unfair competition, weakening the personal and commercial credit of "Turkiye Klinikleri" and a third party,  encroaching and attacking on personal rights within the "SITE" in accordance with the Turkish Commercial Code Law.

4.7. "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the right to change the services and the context within the "SITE"  anytime. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may use this right without any notification and timelessly. "USER"s have to make the changes and/or corrections "Turkiye Klinikleri" required immediately. Any changes and/or corrections that are required by "Turkiye Klinikleri", may be made by "Turkiye Klinikleri" when needed. Any harm, criminal and civil liability resulted or will result from changes and/or corrections required by "Turkiye Klinikleri" and were not made on time by the "USER"s belongs completely to the users.

4.8. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may give links through the "SITE" to other websites and/or "CONTEXT"s and/or folders that are outside of their control and owned and run by third parties. These links are provided for ease of reference only and do not hold qualification for support the respective web SITE or the admin or declaration or guarantee for the information inside. "Turkiye Klinikleri" does not hold any responsibility over the web-sites connected through the links on the "SITE", folders and context, the services or products on the websites provided through these links or their context.

4.9. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may use the information provided to them by the "USERS" through the "SITE" in line with the terms of the "PRIVACY POLICY" and "USER CONTRACT". It may process the information or classify and save them on a database. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may also use the USER's or visitor's identity, address, e-mail address, phone number, IP number, which sections of the "SITE" they visited, domain type, browser type, date and time information to provide statistical evaluation and customized services.

5. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

5.1. The information accessed through this "SITE" or provided by the users legally and all the elements (including but not limited to design, text, image, html code and other codes) of the "SITE" (all of them will be called as studies tied to "Turkiye Klinikleri"s copyrights) belongs to "Turkiye Klinikleri". Users do not have the right to resell, process, share, distribute, display or give someone permission to access or to use the "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information and the products under copyright protection by "Turkiye Klinikleri". Within hereby "Terms of Use" unless explicitly permitted by "Turkiye Klinikleri" nobody can reproduce, process, distribute or produce or prepare any study from those under "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyright protection.

5.2. Within hereby "Terms of Use", "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the rights for "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information, the products associated with "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyrights, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trademarks, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trade looks or its all rights for other entity and information it has through this website unless it is explicitly authorized by "Turkiye Klinikleri".

6. CHANGES IN THE TERMS OF USE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" in its sole discretion may change the hereby "Terms of Use" anytime announcing within the "SITE". The changed terms of the hereby "Terms of Use" will become valid when they are announced. Hereby "Terms of Use" cannot be changed by unilateral declarations of users.

7. FORCE MAJEURE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" is not responsible for executing late or never of this hereby "Terms of Use", privacy policy and "USER Contract" in any situation legally taken into account as force majeure. Being late or failure of performance or non-defaulting of this and similar cases like this will not be the case from the viewpoint of "Turkiye Klinikleri", and "Turkiye Klinikleri" will not have any damage liability for these situations. "Force majeure" term will be regarded as outside of the concerned party's reasonable control and any situation that "Turkiye Klinikleri" cannot prevent even though it shows due diligence. Also, force majeure situations include but not limited to natural disasters, rebellion, war, strike, communication problems, infrastructure and internet failure, power cut and bad weather conditions.

8. LAW AND AUTHORISATION TO FOLLOW

Turkish Law will be applied in practicing, interpreting the hereby "Terms of Use" and managing the emerging legal relationships within this "Terms of Use" in case of finding element of foreignness, except for the rules of Turkish conflict of laws. Ankara Courts and Enforcement Offices are entitled in any controversy happened or may happen due to hereby contract.

9. CLOSING AND AGREEMENT

Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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