Global health hazards of pesticides

Pesticides are the major environmental risk factors affecting global human health, yet a systematic report on the impact of pesticides on the global disease burden is still lacking. To address this gap, this study investigated the health hazards of pesticides by evaluating associations of 91 pesticides with 308 diseases in 202 countries.

Disease-pesticide association

ASR & all genders

Gender stratification

Gender stratification

Age stratification

Age stratification