Concerns of Environmental Persistence of Pesticides and Human Chronic Diseases

Abstract

Copyright: © 2012 Mostafalou S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The connection between exposure to pesticides, chemicals used to control pests, and incidence of the chronic diseases affecting public health has been under attention of scientists in the recent years. Chronic diseases arisen from unknown sources have been identified as the leading cause of death in the world or the health problems that negatively affect quality of life. Based on the first Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2010, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes were announced of killing tens of millions people in 2008 and surprisingly most of them occurred under age of 60. Irrespective of identified risk factors like inheritance, physical inactivity, rich diet, smoking, and alcoholism, investigations continue to explore the role of environmental contaminants in developing these disorders [1].