... < 0.01). The difference between maternal and cord blood might be indicative of a small filtering effect of placental tissue on lead transfer to the fetus. Placenta can determine 57.4% of the level of lead transferred to the fetus in a dynamic modus, while 42.6% depends on the pollution’s level of mothers...

...P.R. Koninckx Reports in the literature of an increasing incidence of endometriosis in industrialized countries and increasing problems with pollution in these countries leads to speculation about a possible link between one of the most harmful components of pollution, dioxin, and endometriosis...