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Toxicant and Disease Database

The CHE Toxicant and Disease Database is a searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions. Diseases and or toxicants can be viewed by utilizing the search options below. See a full description of the database and our methodology.

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solvents

Diseases linked to this toxicant    Grouped by strength of evidence

Strong Evidence

Acute hepatocellular injury (hepatitis)s

Acute tubular necrosis

Contact dermatitis - irritant

Olfactory alterations (hyposmia, anosmia, dysomias)

Steatosis (fatty liver)

Good Evidence

Acute tubular necrosis

ADD/ADHD, hyperactivity

Aplastic anemia

Arrhythmias

Autoimmune antibodies (positive ANA, anti-DNA, RF, etc.)

Bladder cancer

Brain cancer - childhood

Breast cancer

Bronchitis - chronic

Cardiac congenital malformations

Cervical cancer

Cirrhosis

Cognitive impairment (includes impaired learning, impaired memory, and decreased attention span) / mental retardation / developmental delay

Color vision disturbance

Colorectal cancer

Congenital malformations - general

Cranio-facial malformations

Decreased coordination / dysequilibrium

Esophageal cancer

Fetal alcohol syndrome / fetal solvent syndrome

Fetotoxicity (miscarriage / spontaneous abortion, stillbirth)

Glomerulonephritis

Hearing loss

Low birth weight / small for gestational age / intra-uterine growth retardation

Lung cancer

Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)

Menstrual disorders (abnormal bleeding, short cycles, long cycles, irregular cycles, painful periods)

Myelodysplastic syndrome (pre-leukemia)

Neurosthenia (organic affective syndrome)

Pancreatic cancer

Porphyria (toxic)

Pre-eclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension)

Prostate cancer

Reduced fertility - female (infertility and subfertility)

Scleroderma

Stomach cancer

Undifferentiated connective tissue disease

Limited Evidence

Abnormal sperm (morphology, motility, and sperm count)

Acute tubular necrosis

ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)

Alzheimer's

Brain cancer - adult

Breast cancer

Carcinoid

Cardiomyopathy

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic renal disease

Genito-urinary malformations (includes male and female)

Hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer)

Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma)

Immune suppression

Multiple chemical sensitivity

Multiple myeloma

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)

Nephrotic syndrome

Neural tube defects / CNS malformations

Oral clefts (cleft lip and palate)

Ovarian cancer

Pancreatic cancer

Peripheral neuropathy

Reduced fertility - male (infertility and subfertility)

Renal (kidney) cancer

Rheumatoid arthritis

Seizures

Stomach cancer

Thrombocytopenic purpura

Vasculitis

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