About this Research Topic
In this Special Issue, we welcome Original Research and Review Articles focusing on, but not restricted to, the association between environmental exposures and thyroid health. Topics of interest to this issue are:
- Assessment of sources of exposure in a population-based setting;
- Exposure to environmental pollutants during a critical window (e.g. pregnancy, newborns, menarch) and the effects on the thyroid gland;
- The association between environmental exposures and thyroid cancer prognosis/ aggressiveness;
- Molecular or (epi)genetic mechanism assessments;
- Environmental exposure detection methods;
- Interactions or mixture effects of two or more environmental exposures.
Keywords: thyroid, environment, endocrine disruptors, thyroid cancer, pollutants, thyroid function disruption
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.