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Health effects of early-life exposures to environmental hazards
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The fractional concentration of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) is a biomarker of airway inflammation that has proved to be useful in investigations of genetic and epigenetic airway susceptibility to ambient air p...
Environmental Health 2017 16:88
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Previous studies suggest that periconceptional maternal occupational exposure to solvents and pesticides increase the risk of oral clefts in the offspring. Less is known about the effect of occupational exposu...
Environmental Health 2017 16:83
Published on: 4 August 2017
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Neurodevelopment is a complex process involving both genetic and environmental factors. Prenatal exposure to lead (Pb) has been associated with lower performance on neurodevelopmental tests. Adverse neurodevel...
Environmental Health 2017 16:81
Published on: 28 July 2017
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Animal studies suggest that bisphenol A (BPA) may perturb pubertal development in females. However, evidence from human studies is limited.
Environmental Health 2017 16:80
Published on: 27 July 2017
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Prenatal and postnatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may affect early brain development. Rodent studies suggest that prenatal and postnatal neurodevelopmental toxicity from BPA exposure may manifest as social ...
Environmental Health 2017 16:79
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Phthalates and BPA are endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) widely used in consumer products. Evidence suggests that phthalate and BPA exposure alters steroid hormone levels in adults, while in utero exposure...
Environmental Health 2017 16:69
Published on: 21 June 2017
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Sex-specific factors play a major role in human health and disease, including responses to environmental stresses such as toxicant exposure. Increasing evidence suggests that such sex differences also exist du...
Environmental Health 2017 16:59
Published on: 14 June 2017
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Health outcomes of electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile phones and their base stations are of concern. Conducting multidisciplinary research, targeting children and exploring dose-response are recommended....
Environmental Health 2017 16:51
Published on: 2 June 2017
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In utero arsenic exposure may alter fetal developmental programming by altering DNA methylation, which may result in a higher risk of disease in later life. We evaluated the association between in utero arseni...
Environmental Health 2017 16:50
Published on: 30 May 2017
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Animal models show that prenatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure leads to sexually dimorphic disruption of the neuroendocrine system in offspring, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) neuroendocrine s...
Environmental Health 2017 16:47
Published on: 19 May 2017
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Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OPs) has been associated with impaired child development. Pesticide exposure determinants need to be studied in order to identify sources and pathways of pestic...
Environmental Health 2017 16:46
Published on: 17 May 2017
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Ground-level ozone is a potent airway irritant and a determinant of respiratory morbidity. Susceptibility to the health effects of ambient ozone may be influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such ...
Environmental Health 2017 16:36
Published on: 5 April 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2017 16:63
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Children are exposed to flame retardants from the built environment. Brominated diphenyl ethers (BDE) and organophosphate-based flame retardants (OPFRs) are associated with poorer neurocognitive functioning in...
Environmental Health 2017 16:23
Published on: 9 March 2017
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There are numerous examples of laboratory animals that were inadvertently exposed to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during the process of conducting experiments. Controlling contaminations in the labora...
Environmental Health 2017 16:25
Published on: 9 March 2017
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Despite increasing evidence on the relationship between exposure to phthalates and bisphenol A with allergies and asthma, reports on atopic dermatitis (AD) with these chemicals are few. We assessed the associa...
Environmental Health 2017 16:24
Published on: 9 March 2017
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There is a growing literature showing associations between prenatal and early-life exposure to air pollution and children’s neurodevelopment. However, it is unclear if decrements in neurodevelopment observed i...
Environmental Health 2017 16:2
Published on: 18 January 2017
Commentary
The symposium entitled “Chernobyl +30, Fukushima +5: Lessons and Solutions for Fukushima’s Thyroid Question” was held in September, 2016 in Fukushima. The aim of the Symposium was to revisit and recapitulate e...
Environmental Health 2017 16:3
Published on: 18 January 2017
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The incidence of early childhood acute respiratory infections (ARIs) has been associated with aspects of the indoor environment. In recent years, public awareness about some of these environmental issues has i...
Environmental Health 2016 15:120
Published on: 8 December 2016
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Estimating the health effects of ambient air pollutant mixtures is necessary to understand the risk of real-life air pollution exposures.
Environmental Health 2016 15:115
Published on: 25 November 2016
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Lead toxicity is of particular public health concern given its near ubiquitous distribution in nature and established neurotoxicant properties. Similar in its ubiquity and ability to inhibit neurodevelopment, ...
Environmental Health 2016 15:103
Published on: 4 November 2016
