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  1. Cortisol has functions on homeostasis, growth, neurodevelopment, immune function and the stress response. Secretion follows a diurnal rhythm that mediates these processes. Our objective was to examine the asso...

    Authors: Marcela Tamayo y Ortiz, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Rosalind J. Wright, Brent A. Coull and Robert O. Wright
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:41
  2. Rodent and human studies suggest an association between air pollution exposure and type 2 diabetes mellitus, but the extent to which air pollution is associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is less...

    Authors: Abby F. Fleisch, Itai Kloog, Heike Luttmann-Gibson, Diane R. Gold, Emily Oken and Joel D. Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:40
  3. Air pollutants have been linked to type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypothesized to act through inflammatory pathways and may induce interleukin-6 gene (IL6) in the airway epithelium. The cytokine interleukin-6 may impact ...

    Authors: Ikenna C. Eze, Medea Imboden, Ashish Kumar, Martin Adam, Arnold von Eckardstein, Daiana Stolz, Margaret W. Gerbase, Nino Künzli, Alexander Turk, Christian Schindler, Florian Kronenberg and Nicole Probst-Hensch
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:39
  4. Use of mobile (MP) and cordless phones (CP) is common among young children, but whether the resulting radiofrequency exposure affects development of cognitive skills is not known. Small changes have been found...

    Authors: Mary Redmayne, Catherine L. Smith, Geza Benke, Rodney J. Croft, Anna Dalecki, Christina Dimitriadis, Jordy Kaufman, Skye Macleod, Malcolm R. Sim, Rory Wolfe and Michael J. Abramson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:26
  5. There is growing interest in health risks of residents living near concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Previous research mostly focused on swine CAFOs and self-reported respiratory conditions. The ...

    Authors: Mariëtte Hooiveld, Lidwien A. M. Smit, Femke van der Sman-de Beer, Inge M. Wouters, Christel E. van Dijk, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Dick J. J. Heederik and C. Joris Yzermans
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:24
  6. The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate (common trade name “Roundup”) was first sold to farmers in 1974. Since the late 1970s, the volume of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) applied has increased approximate...

    Authors: John Peterson Myers, Michael N. Antoniou, Bruce Blumberg, Lynn Carroll, Theo Colborn, Lorne G. Everett, Michael Hansen, Philip J. Landrigan, Bruce P. Lanphear, Robin Mesnage, Laura N. Vandenberg, Frederick S. vom Saal, Wade V. Welshons and Charles M. Benbrook
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:19
  7. Many populations have been exposed to environmental lead from paint, petrol, and mining and smelting operations. Lead is toxic to humans and there is emerging evidence linking childhood exposure with later lif...

    Authors: Mark Patrick Taylor, Miriam K. Forbes, Brian Opeskin, Nick Parr and Bruce P. Lanphear
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:23

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2016 15:123

    The Letter to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2018 17:10

  8. Injuries involving career-technical-vocational education (CTE) are reported to the New Jersey Safe Schools Program online reporting system, the only U.S. State law-based surveillance data for young workers (ag...

    Authors: Alexsandra A. Apostolico and Derek G. Shendell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:22
  9. Several studies demonstrated a short-term association between ambient temperature and blood pressure. However, few studies have assessed the long-term effect of ambient temperature on children’s blood pressure...

    Authors: Qin Li, Yuming Guo, Dong-Mei Wei, Yi Song, Jie-Yun Song, Jun Ma and Hai-Jun Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:21
  10. The ways in which humans affect and are affected by their environments have been studied from many different perspectives over the past decades. However, it was not until the 1970s that the discussion of the e...

    Authors: Laura Y. Cabrera, Jordan Tesluk, Michelle Chakraborti, Ralph Matthews and Judy Illes
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:20
  11. Understanding the shape of the relationship between long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and health risks is critical for health impact and risk assessment. Studies evaluat...

    Authors: Lauren Pinault, Michael Tjepkema, Daniel L. Crouse, Scott Weichenthal, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin, Michael Brauer, Hong Chen and Richard T. Burnett
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:18
  12. Air pollution in Beijing, especially PM2.5, has received increasing attention in the past years. Although exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to many health issues, few studies have quantified the impact of PM2.5 o...

    Authors: Cindy Feng, Jian Li, Wenjie Sun, Yi Zhang and Quanyi Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:17
  13. Experimental animal studies, in vitro experiments, and clinical assessments have shown that metal toxicity can impair immune responses. We analyzed data from a United States representative National Health and Nut...

    Authors: Whitney S. Krueger and Timothy J. Wade
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:16
  14. The current food system generates about 25 % of total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE), including deforestation, and thereby substantially contributes to the warming of the earth’s surface. To understand the as...

    Authors: Camilla Sjörs, Sara E Raposo, Arvid Sjölander, Olle Bälter, Fredrik Hedenus and Katarina Bälter
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:15
  15. Epidemiological studies suggest that air pollution is adversely associated with pregnancy outcomes. Such associations may be modified by spatially-varying factors including socio-demographic characteristics, l...

    Authors: Lianfa Li, Olivier Laurent and Jun Wu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:14
  16. Exposure to excessive heat kills more people than any other weather-related phenomenon, aggravates chronic diseases, and causes direct heat illness. Strong associations between extreme heat and health have bee...

    Authors: Miriam M. Calkins, Tania Busch Isaksen, Benjamin A. Stubbs, Michael G. Yost and Richard A. Fenske
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:13
  17. Cardiovascular health effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure from wildfire smoke are neither definitive nor consistent with PM2.5 from other air pollution sources. Non-comparability among wildfire he...

    Authors: Melissa A. Tinling, J. Jason West, Wayne E. Cascio, Vasu Kilaru and Ana G. Rappold
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:12
  18. While several studies have shown an association between environmental pollutants and diabetes among non-pregnant adults, few studies have prospectively assessed the association among pregnant women. We estimat...

    Authors: Lindsay M. Jaacks, Dana Boyd Barr, Rajeshwari Sundaram, José M. Maisog, Cuilin Zhang and Germaine M. Buck Louis
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:11
  19. Studies emphasize the importance of particulate matter (PM) in the formation of reactive oxygen species and inflammation. We hypothesized that PM exposure during different time windows in pregnancy influences ...

    Authors: Lotte Grevendonk, Bram G. Janssen, Charlotte Vanpoucke, Wouter Lefebvre, Mirjam Hoxha, Valentina Bollati and Tim S. Nawrot
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:10
  20. Occupational exposure to particles may be associated with increased inflammation of the airways. Animal experiments suggest that inhaled particles also induce a pulmonary acute phase response, leading to syste...

    Authors: Anne Mette Madsen, Trine Thilsing, Jesper Bælum, Anne Helene Garde and Ulla Vogel
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:9
  21. In the 1970s, there were many reports of toxic hazards at corporate subsidiaries in the developing world that were no longer tolerated in the corporations’ “home” countries. Following the chemical disaster in ...

    Authors: Barry Castleman
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:8
  22. Increasingly, feed additives for livestock, such as amino acids and vitamins, are being produced by Gram-negative bacteria, particularly Escherichia coli. The potential therefore exists for animals, consumers and...

    Authors: R. John Wallace, Jürgen Gropp, Noël Dierick, Lucio G. Costa, Giovanna Martelli, Paul G. Brantom, Vasileios Bampidis, Derek W. Renshaw and Lubomir Leng
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:5
  23. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified diesel exhaust as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) and gasoline exhaust as a possible carcinogen (Group 2B) based studies of lung cancer, howev...

    Authors: Linda Kachuri, Paul J. Villeneuve, Marie-Élise Parent, Kenneth C. Johnson and Shelley A. Harris
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:4
  24. Reporting data back to study participants is increasingly being integrated into exposure and biomonitoring studies. Informal science learning opportunities are valuable in environmental health literacy efforts...

    Authors: Monica D. Ramirez-Andreotta, Julia Green Brody, Nathan Lothrop, Miranda Loh, Paloma I. Beamer and Phil Brown
    Citation: Environmental Health 2016 15:2
  25. Blood lead levels have decreased in Mexico since leaded fuel was banned in 1997, but other sources remain, including the use of lead-glazed ceramics for food storage and preparation. Zinc deficiency is present...

    Authors: Alejandra Cantoral, Martha M. Téllez-Rojo, Teresa Shamah Levy, Mauricio Hernández-Ávila, Lourdes Schnaas, Howard Hu, Karen E. Peterson and Adrienne S. Ettinger
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:95
  26. Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, vast areas of Ukraine became contaminated with radionuclides. We examined health effects of school-based food intervention for children in a rural region Narod...

    Authors: Daria M. McMahon, Vitaliy Y. Vdovenko, Yevgenia I. Stepanova, Wilfried Karmaus, Hongmei Zhang, Euridice Irving and Erik R. Svendsen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:94
  27. Public health is often affected by societal decisions that are not primarily about health. Climate change mitigation requires intensive actions to minimise greenhouse gas emissions in the future. Many of these...

    Authors: Jouni T. Tuomisto, Marjo Niittynen, Erkki Pärjälä, Arja Asikainen, Laura Perez, Stephan Trüeb, Matti Jantunen, Nino Künzli and Clive E. Sabel
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:93
  28. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and cancers are the major causes of chronic arsenic exposure-related morbidity and mortality. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and −9 (MMP-9) are deeply involved in the pathoge...

    Authors: Md Shofikul Islam, Nayan Chandra Mohanto, Md Rezaul Karim, Sharmin Aktar, Md Mominul Hoque, Atiqur Rahman, Momotaj Jahan, Rabeya Khatun, Abdul Aziz, Kazi Abdus Salam, Zahangir Alam Saud, Mostaque Hossain, Aminur Rahman, Abul Mandal, Azizul Haque, Hideki Miyataka…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:92
  29. The city of Ozyorsk (Southern Urals) was created as a secret city in 1945 and is a closed city until today. It housed workers of the earliest and one of the country’s largest nuclear facilities. Workers of the...

    Authors: Isabelle Deltour, Fyodor Tretyakov, Yulia Tsareva, Tamara V. Azizova and Joachim Schüz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:91
  30. Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for...

    Authors: Dvera I. Saxton, Phil Brown, Samarys Seguinot-Medina, Lorraine Eckstein, David O. Carpenter, Pamela Miller and Vi Waghiyi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:90

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2016 15:82

  31. Perfluoroalkyl acids are synthetic compounds widely used in industrial and commercial applications. Laboratory studies suggest that these persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals produce oxidant stress and dam...

    Authors: Anglina Kataria, Howard Trachtman, Laura Malaga-Dieguez and Leonardo Trasande
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:89
  32. Short-term particulate air pollution exposure is associated with reduced heart rate variability (HRV), a risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, in many studies. Associations with sub-chronic o...

    Authors: Irina Mordukhovich, Brent Coull, Itai Kloog, Petros Koutrakis, Pantel Vokonas and Joel Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:87
  33. The oil-rich Niger Delta suffers from extensive petroleum contamination. A pilot study was conducted in the region of Ogoniland where one community, Ogale, has drinking water wells highly contaminated with a r...

    Authors: Kalé Zainab Kponee, Andrea Chiger, Iyenemi Ibimina Kakulu, Donna Vorhees and Wendy Heiger-Bernays
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:86
  34. A warming climate will affect future temperature-attributable premature deaths. This analysis is the first to project these deaths at a near national scale for the United States using city and month-specific t...

    Authors: Joel D. Schwartz, Mihye Lee, Patrick L. Kinney, Suijia Yang, David Mills, Marcus C. Sarofim, Russell Jones, Richard Streeter, Alexis St. Juliana, Jennifer Peers and Radley M. Horton
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:85
  35. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an increasing and common condition affecting many people globally, especially children. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between the frequency of truck traffic ...

    Authors: Joyce Shirinde, Janine Wichmann and Kuku Voyi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:84
  36. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death for children under 5 years of age globally, making research on modifiable risk factors for childhood pneumonia important for reducing this disease burden. Millions of ch...

    Authors: Christine Marie George, W. Abdullah Brooks, Joseph H Graziano, Bareng A. S. Nonyane, Lokman Hossain, Doli Goswami, Khalequzzaman Zaman, Mohammad Yunus, Al Fazal Khan, Yasmin Jahan, Dilruba Ahmed, Vesna Slavkovich, Melissa Higdon, Maria Deloria-Knoll and Katherine L. O’ Brien
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:83
  37. There is limited evidence for an association between agricultural pesticide exposure and certain types of childhood cancers. Numerous studies have evaluated exposure to pesticides and childhood cancer and foun...

    Authors: Benjamin J. Booth, Mary H. Ward, Mary E. Turyk and Leslie T. Stayner
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:82
  38. Sugar cane harvesting by burning on Maui island is an environmental health issue due to respiratory effects of smoke. Volcanic smog (“vog”) from an active volcano on a neighboring island periodically blankets ...

    Authors: Christina Louise Mnatzaganian, Karen L. Pellegrin, Jill Miyamura, Diana Valencia and Lorrin Pang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:81
  39. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) constitute a major public health problem affecting one in 68 children. There is little understanding of the causes of ASD despite its serious social impact. Air pollution contai...

    Authors: Evelyn O. Talbott, Lynne P. Marshall, Judith R. Rager, Vincent C. Arena, Ravi K. Sharma and Shaina L. Stacy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:80
  40. In animal experiments persistent organic pollutants (POPs) cause hepatosteatosis. In epidemiological studies POPs have positive associations with serum markers of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and t...

    Authors: Panu Rantakokko, Ville Männistö, Riikka Airaksinen, Jani Koponen, Matti Viluksela, Hannu Kiviranta and Jussi Pihlajamäki
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:79
  41. Congenital cryptorchidism, i.e. failure of the testicular descent to the bottom of the scrotum, is a common birth defect. The evidence from epidemiological, wildlife, and animal studies suggests that exposure ...

    Authors: Jaakko J. Koskenniemi, Helena E. Virtanen, Hannu Kiviranta, Ida N. Damgaard, Jaakko Matomäki, Jørgen M. Thorup, Timo Hurme, Niels E. Skakkebaek, Katharina M. Main and Jorma Toppari
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:78
  42. Both environmental and genetic factors are attributable to the incidence of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between genetic variations in the EYA4, GRH...

    Authors: Xuhui Zhang, Yi Liu, Lei Zhang, Zhangping Yang, Luoxian Yang, Xuchu Wang, CaiXia Jiang, Qiang Wang, Yuyong Xia, Yanjuan Chen, Ou Wu and Yimin Zhu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:77
  43. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds have half-lives typically between 7.2 years and 15 years. Our previous study of patients poisoned by extremely high concentrations of 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran (PeCDF)...

    Authors: Shinya Matsumoto, Manabu Akahane, Yoshiyuki Kanagawa, Jumboku Kajiwara, Chikage Mitoma, Hiroshi Uchi, Masutaka Furue and Tomoaki Imamura
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:76
  44. Exposure to phthalates, a class of endocrine disrupting chemicals, is ubiquitous. We examined the association of urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations during pregnancy with maternal blood pressure and ri...

    Authors: Erika F. Werner, Joseph M. Braun, Kimberly Yolton, Jane C. Khoury and Bruce P. Lanphear
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:75

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