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Environmental Epidemiology

Population studies of adverse health effects from exposures to environmental hazards

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  1. Studies showed that PM2.5 might be associated with various neurogenic diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). However, this topic had been little studied in Zhejiang province of China. 

    Authors: Li Yang, Wenjie Wan, Caiyan Yu, Cheng Xuan, Pinpin Zheng and Jing Yan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:119
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  2. Domestic and parental occupational pesticide exposures are suspected of involvement in the occurrence of childhood acute leukaemia (AL), but the role of exposure to agricultural activities is little known. In ...

    Authors: Sophie Bamouni, Denis Hémon, Laure Faure, Jacqueline Clavel and Stéphanie Goujon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:103
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  3. Adverse health impacts have been found under extreme temperatures in many parts of the world. The majority of such research to date for the UK has been conducted on populations in England, whilst the impacts o...

    Authors: Kai Wan, Zhiqiang Feng, Shakoor Hajat and Ruth M. Doherty
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:99
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  4. Nitrate contamination is seen in drinking water worldwide. Nitrate may pass the placental barrier. Despite suggestive evidence of fetal harm, the potential association between nitrate exposure from drinking wa...

    Authors: Ninna Hinchely Ebdrup, Jörg Schullehner, Ulla Breth Knudsen, Zeyan Liew, Anne Marie Ladehoff Thomsen, Julie Lyngsø, Bjørn Bay, Linn Håkonsen Arendt, Pernille Jul Clemmensen, Torben Sigsgaard, Birgitte Hansen and Cecilia Høst Ramlau-Hansen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:87
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  5. We aimed to explore the association between long-term exposure to particulate matter ≤ 2.5 Âµm (PM2.5) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components including fasting blood glucose (FBG), blood pressure, trigly...

    Authors: Xue-yan Zheng, Si-li Tang, Tao Liu, Ye Wang, Xiao-jun Xu, Ni Xiao, Chuan Li, Yan-jun Xu, Zhao-xuan He, Shu-li Ma, Yu-liang Chen, Rui-lin Meng and Li-feng Lin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:84
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  7. There is a dearth of studies on how neighbourhood environmental attributes relate to the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and profiles of MetS components. We examined the associations of interrelated aspects of the n...

    Authors: Anthony Barnett, Erika Martino, Luke D. Knibbs, Jonathan E. Shaw, David W. Dunstan, Dianna J. Magliano, David Donaire-Gonzalez and Ester Cerin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:80
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  8. Recent reports have suggested that air pollution may impact thyroid function, although the evidence is still scarce and inconclusive. In this study we evaluated the association of exposure to air pollutants to...

    Authors: Sergio Valdés, Viyey Doulatram-Gamgaram, Cristina Maldonado-Araque, Ana Lago-Sampedro, Eva García-Escobar, Sara García-Serrano, Marta García-Vivanco, Luis Garrido Juan, Mark Richard Theobald, Victoria Gil, Fernando Martín-Llorente, Pilar Ocon, Alfonso Calle-Pascual, Luis Castaño, Elías Delgado, Edelmiro Menendez…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:76
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  9. Organophosphate (OP) insecticides represent one of the largest classes of sprayed insecticides in the U.S., and their use has been associated with various adverse health outcomes, including disorders of blood ...

    Authors: Frank Glover, Michael L. Eisenberg, Federico Belladelli, Francesco Del Giudice, Tony Chen, Evan Mulloy and W. Michael Caudle
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:74
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  10. Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a ubiquitous metalloid and drinking water contaminant. Prenatal exposure is associated with birth outcomes across multiple studies. During metabolism, iAs is sequentially methylated ...

    Authors: Jeliyah Clark, Paige Bommarito, Miroslav Stýblo, Marisela Rubio-Andrade, Gonzalo G. García-Vargas, Mary V. Gamble and Rebecca C. Fry
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:68
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  11. Although the oldest-old (those aged over 80 years) are vulnerable to environmental factors and have the highest prevalence of hypertension, studies focusing on greenness exposure and the development of hyperte...

    Authors: Zhou Wensu, Wang Wenjuan, Zhou Fenfen, Chen Wen and Ling Li
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:66
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  12. Increasing evidence associates air pollution with thyroid dysfunction, whereas the potential relationship between exposure to ozone (O3) and Thyroid Nodules (TNs) is unclear.

    Authors: Qiao He, Min Wu, Qiman Shi, Hailong Tan, Bo Wei, Neng Tang, Jianjun Chen, Mian Liu, Saili Duan, Shi Chang and Peng Huang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:65
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  13. Exposure prevalence studies (as here defined) record the prevalence of exposure to environmental and occupational risk factors to human health. Applying systematic review methods to the synthesis of these stud...

    Authors: Frank Pega, Natalie C. Momen, Lisa Bero and Paul Whaley
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:64
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  14. Evidence of the role of interactions between air pollution and pollen exposure in subjects with allergic asthma is limited and need further exploration to promote adequate preventive measures. The objective of...

    Authors: Hanne Krage Carlsen, Susanna Lohman Haga, David Olsson, Annelie F Behndig, Lars Modig, Kadri Meister, Bertil Forsberg and Anna-Carin Olin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:63
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  15. Indonesian peatlands have been drained for agricultural development for several decades. This development has made a major contribution to economic development. At the same time, peatland drainage is causing s...

    Authors: Lars Hein, Joseph V. Spadaro, Bart Ostro, Melanie Hammer, Elham Sumarga, Resti Salmayenti, Rizaldi Boer, Hesti Tata, Dwi Atmoko and Juan-Pablo Castañeda
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:62
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  16. The Italian mesothelioma registry (ReNaM) estimates mesothelioma incidence and addresses its etiology by assessing cases’ exposures but cannot provide relative risk estimates.

    Authors: Enrica Migliore, Dario Consonni, Susan Peters, Roel C. H. Vermeulen, Hans Kromhout, Antonio Baldassarre, Domenica Cavone, Elisabetta Chellini, Corrado Magnani, Carolina Mensi, Enzo Merler, Marina Musti, Alessandro Marinaccio and Dario Mirabelli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:60
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  17. Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and may acutely increase the risk of stillbirth, a rare and severe pregnancy outcome.

    Authors: Megan Richards, Mengjiao Huang, Matthew J. Strickland, Andrew J. Newman, Joshua L. Warren, Rohan D’Souza, Howard H. Chang and Lyndsey A. Darrow
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:59
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  18. Studies focusing on dietary pesticides in population-based samples are scarce and little is known about potential mixture effects. We aimed to assess associations between dietary pesticide exposure profiles an...

    Authors: Pauline Rebouillat, Rodolphe Vidal, Jean-Pierre Cravedi, Bruno Taupier-Letage, Laurent Debrauwer, Laurence Gamet-Payrastre, Hervé Guillou, Mathilde Touvier, Léopold K. Fezeu, Serge Hercberg, Denis Lairon, Julia Baudry and Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:57
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  19. Substandard housing conditions and hazardous indoor environmental exposures contribute to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Housing indices that capture the multiple dimensions of healthy housing ...

    Authors: MyDzung T. Chu, Andrew Fenelon, Judith Rodriguez, Ami R. Zota and Gary Adamkiewicz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:56
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  20. Exposure to cold indoor temperature (< 18 degrees Celsius) increases cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and has been identified by the WHO as a source of unhealthy housing. While warming homes has the potential...

    Authors: Ankur Singh, Anja Mizdrak, Lyrian Daniel, Tony Blakely, Emma Baker, Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo and Rebecca Bentley
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:54
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  21. To conduct a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the relationship between endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), poly-brominated diphenyl e...

    Authors: Dandan Yan, Yang Jiao, Honglin Yan, Tian Liu, Hong Yan and Jingping Yuan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:53
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  23. Living in greener areas is associated with slower cognitive decline and reduced dementia risk among older adults, but the evidence with neurodegenerative disease mortality is scarce. We studied the association...

    Authors: Lucía Rodriguez-Loureiro, Sylvie Gadeyne, Mariska Bauwelinck, Wouter Lefebvre, Charlotte Vanpoucke and Lidia Casas
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:49
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  24. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and its DNA adducts has been suggested to increase the risk of preterm birth (PB). Yet, few studies have been conducted to investigate this association, and the role of ...

    Authors: Nan Zhao, Weiwei Wu, Shiwei Cui, Haibin Li, Yongliang Feng, Ling Guo, Yawei Zhang and Suping Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:48
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2022 21:55

  25. Dietary habits have a profound influence on the metabolic activity of gut microorganisms and their influence on health. Concerns have been raised as to whether the consumption of foodstuffs contaminated with p...

    Authors: Robin Mesnage, Ruth C. E. Bowyer, Souleiman El Balkhi, Franck Saint-Marcoux, Arnaud Gardere, Quinten Raymond Ducarmon, Anoecim Robecca Geelen, Romy Daniëlle Zwittink, Dimitris Tsoukalas, Evangelia Sarandi, Efstathia I. Paramera, Timothy Spector, Claire J. Steves and Michael N. Antoniou
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:46
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  26. Evidences have shown that the stroke risk associated with long-term exposure to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5) varies among people in North America, Europe and Asia, but studie...

    Authors: Pei-Chun Chen, Fung-Chang Sung, Chih-Hsin Mou, Chao W. Chen, Shan P. Tsai, Dennis H. P. Hsieh and Chung Y. Hsu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:43
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  27. The two-stage design has become a standard tool in environmental epidemiology to model multi-location data. However, its standard form is rather inflexible and poses important limitations for modelling complex...

    Authors: Francesco Sera and Antonio Gasparrini
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:41
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2022 21:50

  28. Aerosol pollutants are known to raise the risk of development of non-communicable respiratory diseases (NCRDs) such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and allergic rhinitis. ...

    Authors: Bailey E. Glenn, Leon M. Espira, Miles C. Larson and Peter S. Larson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:40
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  29. Air pollution is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, possibly through chronic systemic inflammation that promotes the progression of atherosclerosis and the risk of cardiovascular events....

    Authors: Mehjar Azzouz, Yiyi Xu, Lars Barregard, Björn Fagerberg, Bengt Zöller, Peter Molnár, Anna Oudin, Mårten Spanne, Gunnar Engström and Leo Stockfelt
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:39
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  30. The burden of chronic respiratory symptoms and respiratory functional limitations is underestimated in Africa. Few data are available on carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in sub-Saharan Africa and existing data i...

    Authors: Thomas Zoller, Elirehema H. Mfinanga, Tresphory B. Zumba, Peter J. Asilia, Edwin M. Mutabazi, David Wimmersberger, Francis Mhimbira, Frederick Haraka and Klaus Reither
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:38
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  31. Air pollution has been associated with metabolic disease and obesity. Adipokines are potential mediators of these effects, but studies of air pollution-adipokine relationships are inconclusive. Macrophage and ...

    Authors: Md Mostafijur Rahman, Fei Fei Liu, Sandrah P. Eckel, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Pedram Shafiei-Jahani, Emily Howard, Lilit Baronikian, Fred Sattler, Frederick W. Lurmann, Hooman Allayee, Omid Akbari and Rob McConnell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:36
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  33. The watershed in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) territory has been contaminated by mercury (Hg) since 1962, resulting in very high Hg concentrations in fish, central to th...

    Authors: Aline Philibert, Myriam Fillion, Judy Da Silva, Tanya Suvendrini Lena and Donna Mergler
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:34
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  34. Ambient PM2.5 is a ubiquitous air pollutant with demonstrated adverse health impacts in population. Hemodialysis patients are a highly vulnerable population and may be particularly susceptible to the effects of P...

    Authors: Yuzhi Xi, David B. Richardson, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Timothy J. Wade, Jennifer E. Flythe, Eric A. Whitsel, Geoffrey C. Peterson, Lauren H. Wyatt and Ana G. Rappold
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:33
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  36. The biological association between electromagnetic fields (EMF) and idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to EMF (IEI-EMF) has not been established. To assess the physiological changes and symptoms a...

    Authors: Po-Chang Huang, Jui-chin Chiang, Ya-Yun Cheng, Tain-Junn Cheng, Chien-Yuan Huang, Ya-Ting Chuang, Ti Hsu and How-Ran Guo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:31
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  37. Recent studies showed that air pollution might play a role in the etiology of mental disorders. In this study we evaluated the association between air pollution and mental and self-rated health and the possibl...

    Authors: Pauline Hautekiet, Nelly D. Saenen, Stefaan Demarest, Hans Keune, Ingrid Pelgrims, Johan Van der Heyden, Eva M. De Clercq and Tim S. Nawrot
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:29
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  38. Brominated flame retardants (BFR) and per- and polyfluorinated alkylated substances (PFAS) are two groups of substances suspected to act as endocrine disruptors. Such substances could therefore be implicated i...

    Authors: Pauline Frenoy, Vittorio Perduca, German Cano-Sancho, Jean-Philippe Antignac, Gianluca Severi and Francesca Romana Mancini
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:27
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  39. Polycystic ovary morphology (PCOM) is an ultrasonographic finding that can be present in women with ovulatory disorder and oligomenorrhea due to hypothalamic, pituitary, and ovarian dysfunction. While air poll...

    Authors: Victoria Fruh, Jay Jojo Cheng, Ann Aschengrau, Shruthi Mahalingaiah and Kevin J. Lane
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:26
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  40. 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is one of the most extensively used herbicides in the United States. In 2012, 2,4-D was the most widely used herbicide in non-agricultural settings and the fifth most hea...

    Authors: Marlaina S. Freisthler, C. Rebecca Robbins, Charles M. Benbrook, Heather A. Young, David M. Haas, Paul D. Winchester and Melissa J. Perry
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:23
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  41. Venous thromboembolisms (VTE) are one of the most frequent cause among the cardiovascular diseases. Despite the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular outcomes have been wid...

    Authors: Matteo Renzi, Massimo Stafoggia, Paola Michelozzi, Marina Davoli, Francesco Forastiere and Angelo G. Solimini
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:21
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  42. Dengue dynamics result from the complex interactions between the virus, the host and the vector, all being under the influence of the environment. Several studies explored the link between weather and dengue d...

    Authors: Noé Ochida, Morgan Mangeas, Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol, Cyril Dutheil, Carole Forfait, Alexandre Peltier, Elodie Descloux and Christophe Menkes
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:20
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  43. Neighborhood greenspaces provide opportunities for increased physical activity and social interaction, and thus may reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. However, there is little robust research on greenspace an...

    Authors: Annie Doubleday, Catherine J. Knott, Marnie F. Hazlehurst, Alain G. Bertoni, Joel D. Kaufman and Anjum Hajat
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:18
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2022 21:28

  44. Several studies have suggested adverse effects of particulate matter (PM) exposure on male reproductive health; few have investigated the association between PM exposure and semen quality in a large population...

    Authors: Wei Wu, Yiqiu Chen, Yuting Cheng, Qiuqin Tang, Feng Pan, Naijun Tang, Zhiwei Sun, Xinru Wang, Stephanie J. London and Yankai Xia
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:16
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  45. Communities in Cape Cod, Massachusetts were exposed to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) through contaminated drinking water from 1969 to 1983. PCE exposure during adulthood has well-established neurotoxic effects; ho...

    Authors: Charlotte R. Doran and Ann Aschengrau
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:15
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  46. Research suggests that greenspace may confer neurocognitive benefits. This study examines whether residential greenspace is associated with risk of dementia among older adults.

    Authors: Erik D. Slawsky, Anjum Hajat, Isaac C. Rhew, Helen Russette, Erin O. Semmens, Joel D. Kaufman, Cindy S. Leary and Annette L. Fitzpatrick
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:14
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  47. Arsenic exposure has been associated with gestational diabetes mellitus. However, the extent to which arsenic exposure during pregnancy is associated with postpartum glucose intolerance is unknown.

    Authors: Abby F. Fleisch, Sudipta Kumer Mukherjee, Subrata K. Biswas, John F. Obrycki, Sheikh Muhammad Ekramullah, D. M. Arman, Joynul Islam, David C. Christiani and Maitreyi Mazumdar
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:13
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  48. Previous epidemiological studies on the association between short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) with hospital admission in major cities in China were limited to shorter study periods or a single hos...

    Authors: Wenjia Peng, Hao Li, Li Peng, Ying Wang and Weibing Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:12
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  49. While the health risks of air pollution attract considerable attention, both scholarly and within the general population, citizens are rarely involved in environmental health research, beyond participating as ...

    Authors: Florence Gignac, Valeria Righi, Raül Toran, Lucía Paz Errandonea, Rodney Ortiz, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Javier Creus, Xavier Basagaña and Mara Balestrini
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:11
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  50. Previous studies observed associations between prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 μm; PM2.5) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth and lower birthweight percentile for gestational age. Few, i...

    Authors: Mercedes A. Bravo and Marie Lynn Miranda
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:9
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