Monica Lind
Adjunct Professor at Department of Medical Sciences; Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 320 30 66
- E-mail:
- Monica.Lind@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Dag Hammarskjölds väg 60
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Arbets- & miljömedicin, Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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Monica Lind: monica.lind@medsci.uu.se , Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, Specialty: metabolic disruptors and bone health, epidemiology and animal models.
Research focus: the impact of exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) for the emergence of the major public diseases; obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Keywords
- cardiovascular disease
- endocrine disruptors
- environmental pollutants
- public health
Publications
Selection of publications
- Low-dose developmental bisphenol A exposure alters fatty acid metabolism in Fischer 344 rat offspring (2018)
- Neurotoxic chemicals in adipose tissue (2018)
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and risk of diabetes (2018)
- High plasma organochlorine pesticide levels are related to increased biological age as calculated by DNA methylation analysis (2018)
- Changes in plasma levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are related to increase in carotid intima-media thickness over 10 years - a longitudinal study (2018)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and left ventricular geometry of the heart in the elderly. (2018)
- Mixture effects of 30 environmental contaminants on incident metabolic syndrome (2017)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and carotid artery atherosclerosis (2017)
- Population attributable risks and costs of diabetogenic chemical exposures in the elderly (2017)
- Association between background exposure to organochlorine pesticides and the risk of cognitive impairment (2016)
- Uppsala Consensus Statement on Environmental Contaminants and the Global Obesity Epidemic (2016)
- Altered heart proteome in fructose-fed Fisher 344 rats exposed to bisphenol A (2016)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and prevalent diabetes in the elderly (2014)
- Circulating levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are associated with left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in the elderly (2013)
- Associations of persistent organic pollutants with abdominal obesity in the elderly (2012)
- Background exposure to persistent organic pollutants predicts stroke in the elderly (2012)
- Circulating Levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Carotid Atherosclerosis in the Elderly (2012)
- Circulating levels of bisphenol A and phthalates are related to carotid atherosclerosis in the elderly (2011)
- Effects of the antiestrogenic environmental pollutant 3,3',4,4', 5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB #126) in rat bone and uterus (1999)
Recent publications
- Assessing the performance of a targeted absolute quantification isotope dilution liquid chromatograhy tandem mass spectrometry assay versus a commercial nontargeted relative quantification assay for detection of three major perfluoroalkyls in human blood (2024)
- Associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and diabetes in two population-based cohort studies from Sweden (2023)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are associated with altered levels of proteins previously linked to inflammation, metabolism and cardiovascular disease (2023)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and cardiovascular disease - Results from two independent population-based cohorts and a meta-analysis (2023)
- Associations of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with lipid and lipoprotein profiles (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Assessing the performance of a targeted absolute quantification isotope dilution liquid chromatograhy tandem mass spectrometry assay versus a commercial nontargeted relative quantification assay for detection of three major perfluoroalkyls in human blood (2024)
- Associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and diabetes in two population-based cohort studies from Sweden (2023)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are associated with altered levels of proteins previously linked to inflammation, metabolism and cardiovascular disease (2023)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and cardiovascular disease - Results from two independent population-based cohorts and a meta-analysis (2023)
- Associations of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with lipid and lipoprotein profiles (2023)
- Mixtures of environmental contaminants and diabetes (2023)
- Changes in plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are associated with changes in plasma lipids-A longitudinal study over 10 years (2022)
- Obesity II (2022)
- Obesity II (2022)
- Serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and body composition - A cross-sectional study in a middle-aged population (2022)
- High Serum-Induced AhRL Is Associated with Prevalent Metabolic Syndrome and Future Impairment of Glucose Tolerance in the Elderly (2021)
- Concentrations of nine endogenous steroid hormones in 70-year-old men and women (2021)
- The associations between p,p'-DDE levels and plasma levels of lipoproteins and their subclasses in an elderly population determined by analysis of lipoprotein content (2020)
- Lipophilic Environmental Chemical Mixtures Released During Weight-Loss (2020)
- Plasma perfluoroalkyls are associated with decreased levels of proteomic inflammatory markers in a cross-sectional study of an elderly population (2020)
- Urinary bisphenol A and serum lipids (2019)
- DDT and its metabolites could contribute to the aetiology of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) and more studies are a priority (2019)
- Association of Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants With Mortality Risk (2019)
- Developmental low-dose exposure to bisphenol A induces chronic inflammation, bone marrow fibrosis and reduces bone stiffness in female rat offspring only (2019)
- Developmental exposure to a very low dose of bisphenol A induces persistent islet insulin hypersecretion in Fischer 344 rat offspring (2019)
- Identification of metabolic profiles associated with human exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances. (2019)
- Prenatal Bisphenol A Exposure is Linked to Epigenetic Changes in Glutamate Receptor Subunit Gene Grin2b in Female Rats and Humans (2018)
- Low-dose developmental bisphenol A exposure alters fatty acid metabolism in Fischer 344 rat offspring (2018)
- High serum levels of p,p'-DDE are associated with an accelerated decline in GFR during 10 years follow-up. (2018)
- The association between p,p'-DDE levels and left ventricular mass is mainly mediated by obesity (2018)
- Neurotoxic chemicals in adipose tissue (2018)
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and risk of diabetes (2018)
- High plasma organochlorine pesticide levels are related to increased biological age as calculated by DNA methylation analysis (2018)
- Changes in plasma levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are related to increase in carotid intima-media thickness over 10 years - a longitudinal study (2018)
- Studies of indirect and direct effects of hypervitaminosis A on rat bone by comparing free access to food and pair-feeding. (2018)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and left ventricular geometry of the heart in the elderly. (2018)
- Changes in markers of liver function in relation to changes in perfluoroalkyl substances - A longitudinal study (2018)
- Low-dose exposure to Bisphenol A during development has limited effects on male reproduction in midpubertal and aging Fischer 344 rats. (2018)
- A method for analysis of marker persistent organic pollutants in low-volume plasma and serum samples using 96-well plate solid phase extraction (2018)
- Longitudinal changes in persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from 2001 to 2009 in a sample of elderly Swedish men and women (2018)
- Serum levels of brominated flame retardants (BFRs (2017)
- Low-dose exposure to bisphenol A in combination with fructose increases expression of genes regulating angiogenesis and vascular tone in juvenile Fischer 344 rat cardiac tissue (2017)
- Effects of Low-Dose Developmental Bisphenol A Exposure on Metabolic Parameters and Gene Expression in Male and Female Fischer 344 Rat Offspring. (2017)
- Genetic and methylation variation in the CYP2B6 gene is related to circulating p,p'-dde levels in a population-based sample (2017)
- Mixture effects of 30 environmental contaminants on incident metabolic syndrome (2017)
- The changes in plasma levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are related to the increase in carotid intima-media thickness over 10 years (2017)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and carotid artery atherosclerosis (2017)
- Low-dose developmental exposure to bisphenol A induces sex-specific effects in bone of Fischer 344 rat offspring (2017)
- Relationships between serum-induced AhR bioactivity or mitochondrial inhibition and circulating polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (2017)
- The effect of drinking water contaminated with perfluoroalkyl substances on a 10-year longitudinal trend of plasma levels in an elderly Uppsala cohort (2017)
- Population attributable risks and costs of diabetogenic chemical exposures in the elderly (2017)
- Dismissing manufactured uncertainties, limitations and competing interpretations about chemical exposures and diabetes (2017)
- Association between background exposure to organochlorine pesticides and the risk of cognitive impairment (2016)
- Low-dose developmental exposure to bisphenol A alters the femoral bone geometry in wistar rats (2016)
- Uppsala Consensus Statement on Environmental Contaminants and the Global Obesity Epidemic (2016)
- Altered heart proteome in fructose-fed Fisher 344 rats exposed to bisphenol A (2016)
- The metabolic fingerprint of p,p'-DDE and HCB exposure in humans (2016)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances are associated with dietary patterns (2016)
- Changes in serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances during a 10-year follow-up period in a large population-based cohort (2016)
- Circulating levels of environmental contaminants are associated with dietary patterns in older adults (2015)
- Manufacturing doubt about endocrine disrupter science - A rebuttal of industry-sponsored critical comments on the UNEP/WHO report "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012" (2015)
- Expression of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Growth Plate Cartilage and the Impact of Its Local Modulation on Longitudinal Bone Growth (2015)
- Adipose tissue and metabolic homeostasis in Fischer F344 rats, exposed to developmental low doses of bisphenol A, are affected in a gender specific and non-monotonic manner (2015)
- Developmental low-dose exposure to bisphenol A results in gender-specific and non-monotonic effects on Fischer F344 rat bone (2015)
- Circulating levels of perfluorinated compounds and left ventricular geometry (2015)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and biomarkers of liver function in a large population based sample of elderly men and women from Sweden (2015)
- Genome-wide association study of toxic metals and trace elements reveals novel associations (2015)
- Genome-wide association study of plasma levels of polychlorinated biphenyls disclose an association with the CYP2B6 gene in a population-based sample (2015)
- Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including structural PFOS isomers in plasma from elderly men and women from Sweden (2015)
- Does grazing on biosolids-treated pasture pose a pathophysiological risk associated with increased exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds? (2014)
- Persistent organic pollutants and liver dysfunction biomarkers in a population-based human sample of men and women (2014)
- Influence of persistent organic pollutants on oxidative stress in population-based samples (2014)
- Persistent Organic Pollutants and Inflammatory Markers in a Cross-Sectional Study of Elderly Swedish People (2014)
- Influence of persistent organic pollutants on the complement system in a population-based human sample (2014)
- The identification of complex interactions in epidemiology and toxicology (2014)
- Does Mortality Risk of Cigarette Smoking Depend on Serum Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants? (2014)
- Bisphenol A increases cortisol production by enhancing phosphorylation of CREB in normal human adrenocortical cells (2014)
- Induction of LINE-1 promoter hypomethylation, a hallmark of tumorigenesis, in normal human adrenocortical cells by Bisphenol A (2014)
- Does developmental exposure to bisphenol A induce bone and adipose tissue disturbances? (2014)
- Genetic variation in the CYP1A1 gene is related to circulating PCB118 levels in a population-based sample (2014)
- Circulating levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and prevalent diabetes in the elderly (2014)
- Circulating levels of p,p '-DDE are related to prevalent hypertension in the elderly (2014)
- Genetic variation in the CYP2B6 Gene is related to circulating 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47) concentrations (2014)
- Persistent organic pollutants are related to the change in circulating lipid levels during a 5 year follow-up (2014)
- Bisphenol A is related to circulating levels of adiponectin, leptin and ghrelin, but not to fat mass or fat distribution in humans (2014)
- Whole blood and serum concentrations of metals in a Swedish population-based sample (2014)
- Serum levels of monobenzylphthalate (MBzP) is related to carotid atherosclerosis in the elderly (2014)
- Exposure to Bisphenol A Affects Lipid Metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster (2014)
- Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed (2013)
- Global DNA hypermethylation is associated with high serum levels of persistent organic pollutants in an elderly population (2013)
- Circulating levels of persistent organic pollutants are related to retrospective assessment of life-time weight change (2013)
- An environmental wide association study (EWAS) approach to the metabolic syndrome (2013)
- Circulating levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are associated with left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in the elderly (2013)
- Persistent organic pollutants and abnormal geometry of the left ventricle in the elderly (2013)
- Circulating Levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Relation to Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue by Abdominal MRI (2013)
- Bisphenol A exposure increases liver fat in juvenile fructose-fed Fischer 344 rats (2013)
- Quantification of total and visceral adipose tissue in fructose-fed rats using water-fat separated single echo MRI (2013)
- A rapid method for the determination of perfluoroalkyl substances including structural isomers of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid in human serum using 96-well plates and column-switching ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (2013)
- An investigation of the co-variation in circulating levels of a large number of environmental contaminants (2012)
- Associations of persistent organic pollutants with abdominal obesity in the elderly (2012)
- Background exposure to persistent organic pollutants predicts stroke in the elderly (2012)
- Can Persistent Organic Pollutants And Plastic-Associated Chemicals Cause Cardiovascular Disease? (2012)
- Circulating levels of metals are related to carotid atherosclerosis in elderly (2012)
- Elevated circulating levels of copper and nickel are found in elderly subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy (2012)
- Circulating Levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Carotid Atherosclerosis in the Elderly (2012)
- Serum concentrations of phthalate metabolites are related to abdominal fat distribution two years later in elderly women (2012)
- Circulating Levels of Phthalate Metabolites Are Associated With Prevalent Diabetes in the Elderly (2012)
- Microarray Profiling of Diaphyseal Bone of Rats Suffering from Hypervitaminosis A (2012)
- Circulating levels of bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates in an elderly population in Sweden, based on the Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors (PIVUS) (2012)
- Associations between circulating levels of bisphenol A and phthalate metabolites and coronary risk in the elderly (2012)
- Gender differences for associations between circulating levels of metals and coronary risk in the elderly (2012)
- Circulating levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) among elderly men and women from Sweden (2012)
- A rapid method for screening of the Stockholm Convention POPs in small amounts of human plasma using SPE and HRGC/HRMS (2012)
- The association between obesity and mortality in the elderly differs by serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (2011)
- Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in plasma predict development of type 2 diabetes in the elderly (2011)
- Circulating levels of bisphenol A and phthalates are related to carotid atherosclerosis in the elderly (2011)
- High dietary intake of retinol leads to bone marrow hypoxia and diaphyseal endosteal mineralization in rats (2011)
- Circulating levels of persistent organic pollutants associate in divergent ways to fat mass measured by DXA in humans (2011)
- Effects on bone tissue in ewes (Ovies aries) and their foetuses exposed to PCB 118 and PCB 153 (2010)
- Quantitative characterization of changes in bone geometry, mineral density and biomechanical properties in two rat strains with different Ah-receptor structures after long-term exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2010)
- Pregnant ewes exposed to multiple endocrine disrupting pollutants through sewage sludge-fertilized pasture show an anti-estrogenic effect in their trabecular bone (2010)
- Transgenic mice with a constitutively active aryl hydrocarbon receptor (CA-AhR) display a gender specific bone phenotype (2010)
- Effects of 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) on vertebral bone mineralization and on thyroxin and vitamin D levels in Sprague-Dawley rats (2009)
- Exposure to pastures fertilised with sewage sludge disrupts bone tissue homeostasis in sheep (2009)
- Short-term exposure to dioxin impairs bone tissue in male rats (2009)
- Health of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in relation to breeding location in the early 1990s (2008)
- In utero and lactational exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) affects bone tissue in rhesus monkeys (2008)
- Bone mineral density changes in relation to environmental PCB exposure (2008)
- Effects of short-term exposure to the DDT metabolite p,p'-DDE on bone tissue in male common frog (Rana temporaria) (2007)
- Subclinical Hypervitaminosis A in Rat (2006)
- Perinatal exposure to PCB 153, but not PCB 126, alters bone tissue composition in female goat offspring (2006)
- Osteopontin (2006)
- Altered retinoid metabolism in female Long-Evans and Han/Wistar rats following long-term 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-treatment (2005)
- Subchronic toxicity of baltic herring oil and its fractions in the rat (III) bone tissue composition and dimension, and ratio of n-6/n-3 fatty acids in serum phospholipids. (2005)
- Vitamin D fails to prevent serum starvation- or staurosporine-induced apoptosis in human and rat osteosarcoma-derived cell lines (2005)
- Estrogen supplementation modulates effects of the endocrine disrupting pollutant PCB126 in rat bone and uterus (2004)
- Abnormal bone composition in female juvenile American alligators from a pesticide-polluted lake (Lake Apopka, Florida) (2004)
- The dioxin-like pollutant PCB 126 (3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl) affects risk factors for cardiovascular disease in female rats (2004)
- Bone mineral density in male Baltic grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) (2003)
- Subclinical hypervitaminosis A causes fragile bones in rats (2002)
- Subchronic toxicity of Baltic herring oil and its fractions in the rat II (2002)
- Torsional testing and peripheral quantitative computed tomography in rat humerus (2001)
- Organochlorines and bone mineral density in Swedish men from the general population (2000)
- Bone tissue composition, dimensions and strength in female rats given an increased dietary level of vitamin A or exposed to 3,3',4, 4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) alone or in combination with vitamin C. (2000)
- Change of bone tissue composition and impaired bone strength in rats exposed to 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) (2000)
- Effects of the antiestrogenic environmental pollutant 3,3',4,4', 5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB #126) in rat bone and uterus (1999)
- Atherosclerosis in Humans and the Association to Environmental Contaminant Mixtures
- Mixture Effects of Multiple Environmental Contaminants on the Metabolic Syndrome in a Human Population-based Sample
- Neurotoxic chemicals in adipose tissue: a role in puzzling findings on obesity and dementia.
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