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  1. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) takes place under extreme conditions with a lack of occupational health and safety. As the demand for metals is increasing due in part to their extensive use in ‘green te...

    Authors: Philip Landrigan, Stephan Bose-O’Reilly, Johanna Elbel, Gunnar Nordberg, Roberto Lucchini, Casey Bartrem, Philippe Grandjean, Donna Mergler, Dingani Moyo, Benoit Nemery, Margrit von Braun and Dennis Nowak
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:78
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  2. Academic institutions across the globe routinely sponsor large conferences. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many conferences have used all- or partially virtual formats. The conversion of the 2021 Consortium of ...

    Authors: Jacqueline R. Lewy, Casey D. Patnode, Philip J. Landrigan, Joseph C. Kolars and Brent C. Williams
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:71
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Climate change, urbanisation, chemical pollution and disruption of ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, affect our health and wellbeing. Research is crucial to be able to respond to the current and future ...

    Authors: Elina Drakvik, Manolis Kogevinas, Åke Bergman, Anais Devouge and Robert Barouki
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:37
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  5. The medical field causes significant environmental impact. Reduction of the primary care practice carbon footprint could contribute to decreasing global carbon emissions. This study aims to quantify the averag...

    Authors: John Nicolet, Yolanda Mueller, Paola Paruta, Julien Boucher and Nicolas Senn
    Citation: Environmental Health 2022 21:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Evidence-to-decision (EtD) frameworks provide a structured and transparent approach for groups of experts to use when formulating recommendations or making decisions. While extensively used for clinical and pu...

    Authors: Susan L. Norris, Max T. Aung, Nicholas Chartres and Tracey J. Woodruff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:124
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Endometriosis, which affects 10–15 % of women of reproductive age, is an estrogen-driven condition influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Exposition to estrogen-like endocrine-disrupting chemicals (E...

    Authors: Laura Gaspari, Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard, Françoise Paris, Nicolas Kalfa, Samir Hamamah and Charles Sultan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:96
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  8. In the course of the ongoing transition of electric energy systems, transmission corridors are often upgraded to higher voltages and other technologies leading to another quality of human exposure. The study a...

    Authors: Michael Kursawe, Dominik Stunder, Thomas Krampert, Andrea Kaifie, Sarah Drießen, Thomas Kraus and Kathrin Jankowiak
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:92
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. Cadmium (Cd) is a common heavy metal that mainly causes renal damage. There is a lack of research on the large-scale and systematic evaluation of the association between urinary Cd (U-Cd) and various effect bi...

    Authors: Ying Qing, Jiaqi Yang, Yuanshen Zhu, Yongzhen Li, Weiwei Zheng, Min Wu and Gengsheng He
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:75
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Low birthweight, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and perinatal mortality have been associated with air pollution. However, intervention studies that use ultrasound measurements to assess the effects of ...

    Authors: Anindita Dutta, Donee Alexander, Theodore Karrison, Oludare Morhasson-Bello, Nathaniel Wilson, Omolola Mojisola Atalabi, Damilola Adu, Tope Ibigbami, Samuel Adekunle, Dayo Adepoju, John Olamijulo, Omolola Akinwunmi, Oluniyi S. Afolabi, Oluwafunmilade Deji-Abiodun, Babatunde Adedokun, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:74
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Air pollution is one of the world’s leading mortality risk factors contributing to seven million deaths annually. COVID-19 pandemic has claimed about one million deaths in less than a year. However, it is uncl...

    Authors: Patrick D. M. C. Katoto, Amanda S. Brand, Buket Bakan, Paul Musa Obadia, Carsi Kuhangana, Tony Kayembe-Kitenge, Joseph Pyana Kitenge, Celestin Banza Lubaba Nkulu, Jeroen Vanoirbeek, Tim S. Nawrot, Peter Hoet and Benoit Nemery
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:41
    Content type: Review Published on:

  12. Exposure to the bioaccumulative pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolite dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) has been associated with increased risk of insulin resistance and obesi...

    Authors: Annalise N. vonderEmbse, Sarah E. Elmore, Kyle B. Jackson, Beth A. Habecker, Katherine E. Manz, Kurt D. Pennell, Pamela J. Lein and Michele A. La Merrill
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:37
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Numerous groups, such as the tobacco industry, have deliberately altered and misrepresented knowable facts and empirical evidence to promote an agenda, often for monetary benefit, with consequences for environ...

    Authors: Rebecca F. Goldberg and Laura N. Vandenberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Exposure to occupational manganese (Mn) is associated with neurotoxic brain injury, manifesting primarily as parkinsonism. The association between environmental Mn exposure and parkinsonism is unclear. To char...

    Authors: Brad A. Racette, Gill Nelson, Wendy W. Dlamini, Pradeep Prathibha, Jay R. Turner, Mwiza Ushe, Harvey Checkoway, Lianne Sheppard and Susan Searles Nielsen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:27
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  15. In the present study, we aimed to investigate selected functions of human neutrophils exposed to bisphenol A (BPA) under in vitro conditions. As BPA is classified among xenoestrogens, we compared its action an...

    Authors: Wioletta Ratajczak-Wrona, Marzena Garley, Malgorzata Rusak, Karolina Nowak, Jan Czerniecki, Katarzyna Wolosewicz, Milena Dabrowska, Slawomir Wolczynski, Piotr Radziwon and Ewa Jablonska
    Citation: Environmental Health 2021 20:5
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  16. Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common causes of cancer in the world and the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Mortality is associated mainly with the development of metastases. Identifi...

    Authors: Meriem Koual, Céline Tomkiewicz, German Cano-Sancho, Jean-Philippe Antignac, Anne-Sophie Bats and Xavier Coumoul
    Citation: Environmental Health 2020 19:117
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. Household air pollution (HAP) is a significant source of the global burden of disease. Our objective was to evaluate the association between environmental health literacy (EHL), a domain of health literacy (HL...

    Authors: Jill Raufman, Deanna Blansky, David W. Lounsbury, Esther Wairimu Mwangi, Qing Lan, Jordi Olloquequi and H. Dean Hosgood III
    Citation: Environmental Health 2020 19:89
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition defined by the attribution of non-specific symptoms to electromagnetic fields (EMF) of anthropogenic origin. Despite its repercussions on the lives of its ...

    Authors: Maël Dieudonné
    Citation: Environmental Health 2020 19:48
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2020 19:122

  22. Typhus group rickettsiosis (TGR), which is a neglected vector-borne infectious disease, including epidemic typhus and endemic typhus. We explored the lag effects and nonlinear association between meteorologica...

    Authors: Yuan Gao, Yanlin Niu, Wanwan Sun, Keke Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Ning Zhao, Yujuan Yue, Haixia Wu, Fengxia Meng, Jun Wang, Xueshuang Wang and Qiyong Liu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2020 19:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Stroke, especially ischemic stroke (IS), has been a severe public health problem around the world. However, the association between air pollution and ischemic stroke remains ambiguous.

    Authors: Zhinghui Wang, Ji Peng, Peiyi Liu, Yanran Duan, Suli Huang, Ying Wen, Yi Liao, Hongyan Li, Siyu Yan, Jinquan Cheng and Ping Yin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2020 19:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Although air pollutants have been associated with cardiopulmonary mortality, their effects on the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (Afib) remain unclear. This study examined the association between ambient ai...

    Authors: Hsiu Hao Lee, Shih Chun Pan, Bing Yu Chen, Shih Hsiang Lo and Yue Leon Guo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:117
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Climate change is increasing the number and intensity of extreme weather events in many parts of the world. Precipitation extremes have been linked to both outbreaks and sporadic cases of waterborne illness. W...

    Authors: Bimal K. Chhetri, Eleni Galanis, Stephen Sobie, Jordan Brubacher, Robert Balshaw, Michael Otterstatter, Sunny Mak, Marcus Lem, Mark Lysyshyn, Trevor Murdock, Manon Fleury, Kirsten Zickfeld, Mark Zubel, Len Clarkson and Tim K. Takaro
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:116
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  26. Prenatal inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure is associated with pregnancy outcomes. Maternal capabilities of arsenic biotransformation and elimination may influence the susceptibility of arsenic toxicity. Therefo...

    Authors: Shangzhi Gao, Pi-I Lin, Golam Mostofa, Quazi Quamruzzaman, Mahmudur Rahman, Mohammad Lutfar Rahman, Li Su, Yu-mei Hsueh, Marc Weisskopf, Brent Coull and David Chistopher Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:94
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. The sciences, and especially the research subspecialties of occupational and environmental health, are being misused. The misuse serves to interfere with the advancement of policies that depend on rational evi...

    Authors: Xaver Baur, Colin L. Soskolne and Lisa A. Bero
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:93
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  28. Hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMF) is a controversial condition. While individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) claim to experience hea...

    Authors: Kristina Schmiedchen, Sarah Driessen and Gunnhild Oftedal
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:88
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. Nitrate is converted to nitrite in the human body and subsequently can react with amines and amides in the gastrointestinal tract to form N-nitroso compounds (NOCs), which are known to be carcinogenic in animals....

    Authors: Simone G. van Breda, Karen Mathijs, Virág Sági-Kiss, Gunter G. Kuhnle, Ben van der Veer, Rena R. Jones, Rashmi Sinha, Mary H. Ward and Theo M. de Kok
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:87
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Most of the global burden of pollution-related morbidity and mortality is believed to occur in resource-limited settings, where HIV serostatus and sex may influence the relationship between air pollution expos...

    Authors: Crystal M. North, Piers MacNaughton, Peggy S. Lai, Jose Vallarino, Samson Okello, Bernard Kakuhikire, Alexander C. Tsai, Marcia C. Castro, Mark J. Siedner, Joseph G. Allen and David C. Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:73
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Children in India are exposed to high levels of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5). However, population-level evidence of associations with adverse health outcomes from within the country is limited. The aim...

    Authors: Dean Spears, Sagnik Dey, Sourangsu Chowdhury, Noah Scovronick, Sangita Vyas and Joshua Apte
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:62
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  32. The link between use of solid biomass fuel (wood, charcoal, coal, dung, and crop residues) for cooking and/or heating and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is inconclusive.

    Authors: Samson Okello, Suzan Joan Akello, Emmanuel Dwomoh, Emmanuel Byaruhanga, Christopher Kenneth Opio, Ruyang Zhang, Kathleen E. Corey, Winnie R. Muyindike, Ponsiano Ocama and David D. Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:60
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. Estimation of population attributable fraction (PAF) requires unbiased relative risk (RR) by using either Levin’s or Miettinen’s formula, on which decision depends on the available exposure information in refe...

    Authors: Cheng-Kuan Lin and Szu-Ta Chen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:52
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Response Published on:

    The original article was published in Environmental Health 2019 18:54

  36. Air pollution has a significant health impact. Most data originate from temperate regions. We aim to study the health impact of air pollution, particularly among the elderly, in a tropical region.

    Authors: Jonathan Yap, Yixiang Ng, Khung Keong Yeo, Anders Sahlén, Carolyn Su Ping Lam, Vernon Lee and Stefan Ma
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are broad-spectrum herbicides that act on the shikimate pathway in bacteria, fungi, and plants. The possible effects of GBHs on human health are the subject of an intense pub...

    Authors: Fabiana Manservisi, Corina Lesseur, Simona Panzacchi, Daniele Mandrioli, Laura Falcioni, Luciano Bua, Marco Manservigi, Marcella Spinaci, Giovanna Galeati, Alberto Mantovani, Stefano Lorenzetti, Rossella Miglio, Anderson Martino Andrade, David Møbjerg Kristensen, Melissa J. Perry, Shanna H. Swan…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Exposure to ambient particulate matter generated from coal-fired power plants induces long-term health consequences. However, epidemiologic studies have not yet focused on attributing these health burdens spec...

    Authors: Cheng-Kuan Lin, Ro-Ting Lin, Tom Chen, Corwin Zigler, Yaguang Wei and David C. Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2019 18:54

  40. Low-income and minority communities often face disproportionately high pollutant exposures. The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, has sparked concern about broader socioeconomic disparities in exposures to drink...

    Authors: Laurel A. Schaider, Lucien Swetschinski, Christopher Campbell and Ruthann A. Rudel
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Neonicotinoids are a class of systemic insecticides widely used on food crops globally. These pesticides may be found in “off-target” food items and persist in the environment. Despite the potential for extens...

    Authors: Hillary A. Craddock, Dina Huang, Paul C. Turner, Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá and Devon C. Payne-Sturges
    Citation: Environmental Health 2019 18:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. The conventional concept of radiation protection is based on epidemiological studies of radiation that support a positive correlation between dose and response. However, there is a remarkable difference in bio...

    Authors: Hisanori Fukunaga and Kevin M. Prise
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:93
    Content type: Hypothesis Published on:

  43. Fast fashion, inexpensive and widely available of-the-moment garments, has changed the way people buy and dispose of clothing. By selling large quantities of clothing at cheap prices, fast fashion has emerged ...

    Authors: Rachel Bick, Erika Halsey and Christine C. Ekenga
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:92
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  44. Exposure to air pollution impairs aspects of pulmonary and autonomic function and causes pulmonary inflammation. However, how exercising in air pollution affects these indices is poorly understood. Therefore, ...

    Authors: Luisa V. Giles, Christopher Carlsten and Michael S. Koehle
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:87
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Exposure to low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ordinary life is suspected to be related to oxidative stress and decreased lung function. This study evaluated whether exposure to ambient VOCs in...

    Authors: Jae-Woo Kwon, Hee-Won Park, Woo Jin Kim, Man-Goo Kim and Seung-Joon Lee
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:65
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the most widely used pesticides worldwide, and glyphosate is the active ingredient of such herbicides, including the formulation known as Roundup. The massive and increas...

    Authors: Simona Panzacchi, Daniele Mandrioli, Fabiana Manservisi, Luciano Bua, Laura Falcioni, Marcella Spinaci, Giovanna Galeati, Giovanni Dinelli, Rossella Miglio, Alberto Mantovani, Stefano Lorenzetti, Jianzhong Hu, Jia Chen, Melissa J. Perry, Philip J. Landrigan and Fiorella Belpoggi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are broad-spectrum herbicides that act on the shikimate pathway in bacteria, fungi, and plants. The possible effects of GBHs on human health are the subject of an intense pub...

    Authors: Qixing Mao, Fabiana Manservisi, Simona Panzacchi, Daniele Mandrioli, Ilaria Menghetti, Andrea Vornoli, Luciano Bua, Laura Falcioni, Corina Lesseur, Jia Chen, Fiorella Belpoggi and Jianzhong Hu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:50
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  49. Extreme heat is often associated with elevated levels of human mortality, particularly across the mid-latitudes. Los Angeles, CA exhibits a unique, highly variable winter climate, with brief periods of intense...

    Authors: Adam J. Kalkstein, Laurence S. Kalkstein, Jennifer K. Vanos, David P. Eisenman and P. Grady Dixon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:45
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. The regulatory management of chemicals and toxicants in the EU addresses hundreds of different chemicals and health hazards individually, one by one. An issue is that, so far, the possible interactions among c...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Anne-Simone Parent, Jos C. S. Kleinjans, Tim S. Nawrot, Greet Schoeters and Nicolas Van Larebeke
    Citation: Environmental Health 2018 17:42
    Content type: Hypothesis Published on:

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