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  1. There is public concern regarding potential health effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by fixed site transmitters. We therefore investigated whether self-reported general well-bei...

    Authors: Anna Schoeni, Katharina Roser, Alfred Bürgi and Martin Röösli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:77
  2. Hypospadias is a relatively common birth defect affecting the male urinary tract. It has been suggested that exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals might increase the risk of hypospadias by interrupting no...

    Authors: Jennifer J. Winston, Michael Emch, Robert E. Meyer, Peter Langlois, Peter Weyer, Bridget Mosley, Andrew F. Olshan, Lawrence E. Band and Thomas J. Luben
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:76
  3. The issue of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is receiving wide attention from both the scientific and regulatory communities. Recent analyses of the EDC literature have been criticized for failing to use...

    Authors: Laura N. Vandenberg, Marlene Ã…gerstrand, Anna Beronius, Claire Beausoleil, Ã…ke Bergman, Lisa A. Bero, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, C. Scott Boyer, Glinda S. Cooper, Ian Cotgreave, David Gee, Philippe Grandjean, Kathryn Z. Guyton, Ulla Hass, Jerrold J. Heindel, Susan Jobling…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:74
  4. Inhabitants of Guadeloupe are chronically exposed to low dose of chlordecone via local food. The corresponding health impacts have not been quantified. Nevertheless the public authority implemented an exposure...

    Authors: Vincent Nedellec, Ari Rabl and William Dab
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:75
  5. To propose a new method for including the cumulative mid-term effects of air pollution in the traditional Poisson regression model and compare the temperature-related mortality risk estimates, before and after...

    Authors: Svetlana Stanišić Stojić, Nemanja Stanišić and Andreja Stojić
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:73
  6. Though lead contaminated waste sites have been widely researched in many high-income countries, their prevalence and associated health outcomes have not been well documented in low- and middle-income countries.

    Authors: Jack Caravanos, Jonathan Carrelli, Russell Dowling, Brian Pavilonis, Bret Ericson and Richard Fuller
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:72
  7. Temperament is a psychological construct that reflects both personality and an infant’s reaction to social stimuli. It can be assessed early in life and is stable over time Temperament predicts many later life...

    Authors: Annemarie Stroustrup, Hsiao-Hsien Hsu, Katherine Svensson, Lourdes Schnaas, Alejandra Cantoral, Maritsa Solano González, Mariana Torres-Calapiz, Chitra Amarasiriwardena, David C. Bellinger, Brent A. Coull, Martha M. Téllez-Rojo, Robert O. Wright and Rosalind J. Wright
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:71
  8. Traffic exhaust, refineries and industrial facilities are major sources of air toxics identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) for their potential risk to human health. In utero and ea...

    Authors: Elaine Symanski, P. Grace Tee Lewis, Ting-Yu Chen, Wenyaw Chan, Dejian Lai and Xiaomei Ma
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:70
  9. There are numerous methods for adjusting measured concentrations of urinary biomarkers for hydration variation. Few studies use objective criteria to quantify the relative performance of these methods. Our aim...

    Authors: Daniel R. S. Middleton, Michael J. Watts, R. Murray Lark, Chris J. Milne and David A. Polya
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:68
  10. To examine transient environmental exposures and their relationship with human fecundity, exposure assessment should occur optimally at the time of conception in both members of the couple.

    Authors: Christina A. Porucznik, Kyley J. Cox, Karen C. Schliep, Diana G. Wilkins and Joseph B. Stanford
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:67
  11. In a community in northern Chile, explosive procedures are used by two local industrial mines (gold, copper). We hypothesized that the prevalence of asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis in the community may be assoc...

    Authors: Ronald Herrera, Katja Radon, Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, Stella Cifuentes, Daniel Moraga Muñoz and Ursula Berger
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:66
  12. Lead is a pervasive neurotoxicant that has been associated with poorer cognitive, behavioral, and motor outcomes in children. The effects of lead on sensory function have not been well characterized. The aim o...

    Authors: Monica K. Silver, Xiaoqing Li, Yuhe Liu, Ming Li, Xiaoqin Mai, Niko Kaciroti, Paul Kileny, Twila Tardif, John D. Meeker and Betsy Lozoff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:65
  13. In 2012, Colorado experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons of the past decade. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship of local PM2.5 levels, modeled using the Weather Research and Forecas...

    Authors: Breanna L. Alman, Gabriele Pfister, Hua Hao, Jennifer Stowell, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu and Matthew J. Strickland
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:64
  14. Oral colestimide was reported to lower the concentration of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCB in the blood of humans. A pilot study showed that the arithmetic mean total TEQ concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs in the...

    Authors: Takashi Todaka, Akinori Honda, Masami Imaji, Yoshiko Takao, Chikage Mitoma and Masutaka Furue
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:63
  15. Because some adverse health effects associated with chronic arsenic exposure may be mediated by methylated arsenicals, interindividual variation in capacity to convert inorganic arsenic into mono- and di-methy...

    Authors: Edward E. Hudgens, Zuzana Drobna, Bin He, X. C. Le, Miroslav Styblo, John Rogers and David J. Thomas
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:62
  16. To investigate air pollution effects during pregnancy or in the first weeks of life, models are needed that capture both the spatial and temporal variability of air pollution exposures.

    Authors: Elena Proietti, Edgar Delgado-Eckert, Danielle Vienneau, Georgette Stern, Ming-Yi Tsai, Philipp Latzin, Urs Frey and Martin Röösli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:61
  17. Women have elevated rates of thyroid disease compared to men. Environmental toxicants have been implicated as contributors to this dimorphism, including polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), flame retardant ...

    Authors: Joseph G. Allen, Sara Gale, R. Thomas Zoeller, John D. Spengler, Linda Birnbaum and Eileen McNeely
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:60
  18. Pregnant women are an especially important population to monitor for environmental exposures given the vulnerability of the developing fetus. During pregnancy and lactation chemical body burdens may change due...

    Authors: Mandy Fisher, Tye E. Arbuckle, Chun Lei Liang, Alain LeBlanc, Eric Gaudreau, Warren G. Foster, Douglas Haines, Karelyn Davis and William D. Fraser
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:59
  19. Planning and transport agencies play a vital role in influencing the design of townscapes, travel modes and travel behaviors, which in turn impact on the walkability of neighbourhoods and residents’ physical a...

    Authors: Christine T. Cowie, Ding Ding, Margaret I. Rolfe, Darren J. Mayne, Bin Jalaludin, Adrian Bauman and Geoffrey G. Morgan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:58
  20. Several studies have investigated the association between asthma exacerbations and exposures to ambient temperature and precipitation. However, limited data exists regarding how extreme events, projected to gr...

    Authors: Sutyajeet Soneja, Chengsheng Jiang, Jared Fisher, Crystal Romeo Upperman, Clifford Mitchell and Amir Sapkota
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:57
  21. Oil extraction may cause extensive environmental impact that can affect health of populations living in surrounding areas. Large populations are potentially exposed to oil extraction related contamination thro...

    Authors: Cristina O’Callaghan-Gordo, Martí Orta-Martínez and Manolis Kogevinas
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:56
  22. Thyroid hormones (THs) regulate many biological functions in the human body and are essential for normal brain development. Epidemiological studies have observed diverging associations between halogenated pers...

    Authors: Sanna Lignell, Marie Aune, Per Ola Darnerud, Mats Stridsberg, Annika Hanberg, Susanna C Larsson and Anders Glynn
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:55
  23. Land Use Regression (LUR) is a popular method to explain and predict spatial contrasts in air pollution concentrations, but LUR models for ultrafine particles, such as particle number concentration (PNC) are e...

    Authors: Marloes Eeftens, Reto Meier, Christian Schindler, Inmaculada Aguilera, Harish Phuleria, Alex Ineichen, Mark Davey, Regina Ducret-Stich, Dirk Keidel, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nino Künzli and Ming-Yi Tsai
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:53
  24. Higher exposure to certain phthalates is associated with a diabetes and insulin resistance, with sex differences seen. Yet, little is known about the association between phthalates and metabolic syndrome (MetS...

    Authors: Tamarra M. James-Todd, Tianyi Huang, Ellen W. Seely and Aditi R. Saxena
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:52
  25. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between modeled particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and birth weight, including the potential modification by maternal risk factors and indicators of...

    Authors: Anders C. Erickson, Aleck Ostry, Laurie H. M. Chan and Laura Arbour
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:51
  26. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a ubiquitous, endocrine-disrupting environmental contaminant that increases risk of some adverse developmental effects. Thus, it is important to characterize BPA levels, metabolic fate and...

    Authors: Roy R. Gerona, Janet Pan, Ami R. Zota, Jackie M. Schwartz, Matthew Friesen, Julia A. Taylor, Patricia A. Hunt and Tracey J. Woodruff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:50
  27. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers are known endocrine disrupting environmental contaminants used as flame retardants. Their levels have increased in humans over the last ten years, raising concerns about their co...

    Authors: Yasmine K. Serme-Gbedo, Nadia Abdelouahab, Jean-Charles Pasquier, Alan A. Cohen and Larissa Takser
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:49
  28. Preeclampsia is frequent in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), especially during the dry season. We tested whether preeclampsia was associated with exposure to environmental metals.

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Elongi Moyene, Hans Scheers, Barthélémy Tandu-Umba, Vincent Haufroid, Baudouin Buassa-bu-Tsumbu, Fons Verdonck, Bernard Spitz and Benoit Nemery
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:48
  29. Oxidative stress has been suggested as a major cause of elevated blood pressure (BP) and reduced heart rate variability (HRV) due to air pollution. We hypothesized that the associations of air pollution exposu...

    Authors: Kyoung-Nam Kim, Jin Hee Kim, Kweon Jung and Yun-Chul Hong
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:47
  30. Regional differences in the oxidative potential of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) may modify its impact on the risk of myocardial infarction.

    Authors: Scott Weichenthal, Eric Lavigne, Greg Evans, Krystal Pollitt and Rick T. Burnett
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:46
  31. Authors: Gudrun Weinmayr, Frauke Hennig, Kateryna Fuks, Michael Nonnemacher, Hermann Jakobs, Stefan Möhlenkamp, Raimund Erbel, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Barbara Hoffmann and Susanne Moebus
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:45

    The original article was published in Environmental Health 2015 14:53

  32. The people of Bangladesh are currently exposed to high concentrations of arsenic and manganese in drinking water, as well as elevated lead in many regions. The objective of this study was to investigate associ...

    Authors: Ema G. Rodrigues, David C. Bellinger, Linda Valeri, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan, Quazi Quamruzzaman, Mostofa Golam, Molly L. Kile, David C. Christiani, Robert O. Wright and Maitreyi Mazumdar
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:44
  33. Authors: Laura N Vandenberg, Roy R Gerona, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Julia A Taylor, Richard B van Breemen, Carrie A Dickenson, Chunyang Liao, Yang Yuan, Retha R Newbold, Vasantha Padmanabhan, Frederick S vom Saal and Tracey J Woodruff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:43

    The original article was published in Environmental Health 2014 13:25

  34. The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide. Cities have long been known to be society’s predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also a main source...

    Authors: Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S38

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  35. The UK government has an ambitious goal to reduce carbon emissions from the housing stock through energy efficiency improvements. This single policy goal is a strong driver for change in the housing system, bu...

    Authors: Alexandra Macmillan, Michael Davies, Clive Shrubsole, Naomi Luxford, Neil May, Lai Fong Chiu, Evelina Trutnevyte, Yekatherina Bobrova and Zaid Chalabi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S37

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  36. Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability and improve human health and w...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Salmond, Marc Tadaki, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Katherine Arbuthnott, Andrew Coutts, Matthias Demuzere, Kim N. Dirks, Clare Heaviside, Shanon Lim, Helen Macintyre, Rachel N. McInnes and Benedict W. Wheeler
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S36

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  37. The annual burden of disease caused indoor air pollution, including polluted outdoor air used to ventilate indoor spaces, is estimated to correspond to a loss of over 2 million healthy life years in the Europe...

    Authors: Arja Asikainen, Paolo Carrer, Stylianos Kephalopoulos, Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes, Pawel Wargocki and Otto Hänninen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S35

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  38. Seventy-five percent of the population in Europe live in urban areas and analysing the effects of urban form on the health of the urban population is of great public health interest. Not much is known, however...

    Authors: Daniela Fecht, Lea Fortunato, David Morley, Anna L. Hansell and John Gulliver
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S34

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  39. In the context of a warming climate and increasing urbanisation (with the associated urban heat island effect), interest in understanding temperature related health effects is growing. Previous reviews have ex...

    Authors: Katherine Arbuthnott, Shakoor Hajat, Clare Heaviside and Sotiris Vardoulakis
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S33

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  40. China has the biggest population in the world, and has been experiencing the largest migration in history, and its rapid urbanization has profound and lasting impacts on local and national public health. Under...

    Authors: Xinhu Li, Jinchao Song, Tao Lin, Jane Dixon, Guoqin Zhang and Hong Ye
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S32

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  41. As human populations become more and more urban, decision-makers at all levels face new challenges related to both the scale of service provision and the increasing complexity of cities and the networks that c...

    Authors: L. C. Rietveld, J. G. Siri, I. Chakravarty, A. M. Arsénio, R. Biswas and A. Chatterjee
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S31

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  42. Cities around the world face many environmental health challenges including contamination of air, water and soil, traffic congestion and noise, and poor housing conditions exacerbated by unsustainable urban de...

    Authors: Sotiris Vardoulakis, Keith Dear and Paul Wilkinson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S30

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  43. There is increasing appreciation of the proportion of the health burden that is attributed to modifiable population exposure to environmental health hazards. To manage this avoidable burden in the United Kingd...

    Authors: Mae Woods, Helen Crabbe, Rebecca Close, Mike Studden, Ai Milojevic, Giovanni Leonardi, Tony Fletcher and Zaid Chalabi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S29

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  44. West Nile virus (WNV) is transmitted by mosquitoes in both urban as well as in rural environments and can be pathogenic in birds, horses and humans. Extrinsic factors such as temperature and land use are deter...

    Authors: Jan C. Semenza, Annelise Tran, Laura Espinosa, Bertrand Sudre, Dragoslav Domanovic and Shlomit Paz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S28

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  45. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect describes the phenomenon whereby cities are generally warmer than surrounding rural areas. Traditionally, temperature monitoring sites are placed outside of city centres, whi...

    Authors: Clare Heaviside, Sotiris Vardoulakis and Xiao-Ming Cai
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S27

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  46. Climate change is a global threat to health and wellbeing. Here we provide findings of an international research project investigating the health and wellbeing impacts of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emis...

    Authors: Clive E. Sabel, Rosemary Hiscock, Arja Asikainen, Jun Bi, Mike Depledge, Sef van den Elshout, Rainer Friedrich, Ganlin Huang, Fintan Hurley, Matti Jantunen, Spyros P. Karakitsios, Menno Keuken, Simon Kingham, Periklis Kontoroupis, Nino Kuenzli, Miaomiao Liu…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15(Suppl 1):S25

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1

  47. The Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation is characterised by its abundance of natural resources and industries. Located in this region, Asbest city is situated next to one of the largest open-pit chryso...

    Authors: E. V. Kovalevskiy, S. J. Schonfeld, E. Feletto, M. Moissonnier, S. V. Kashanskiy, I. V. Bukhtiyarov and J. Schüz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:42

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