Serum Chordecone Concentration in Guadeloupean Population: Impact of a Multidisciplinary Support Program on the Reduction of the Contamination Level.
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Chlordecone Level
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Prevention
- Participants needed
- 3,000 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe · Other
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About This Trial
The French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique) are characterized by a major use of pesticides in bananas plantation from the 1950s. These crops used organochlorine insecticides and especially chlordecone (CLD) from 1972 to 1993. The lack of biotic and abiotic degradation of CLD led to persistent soil pollution, contamination of surface and deep waters, of numerous plant and animal, and of the pop…
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Eligibility Criteria
* All subject overs 18 years of age residing in Guadeloupe invited to participate to the program by the Regional Health Agency or subjects who requested a test from their doctor in the framework of the ministerial measure.
* Subjects who have read the information note and signed the consent to parti…
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