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  1. The role of environmental pesticide exposures, such as pyrethroids, and their relationship to sperm abnormalities are not well understood. This study investigated whether environmental exposure to pyrethroids ...

    Authors: Heather A Young, John D Meeker, Sheena E Martenies, Zaida I Figueroa, Dana Boyd Barr and Melissa J Perry
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:111
  2. Classroom ventilation rates often do not meet building standards, although it is considered to be important to improve indoor air quality. Poor indoor air quality is thought to influence both children’s health...

    Authors: Jeannette TM Rosbach, Machiel Vonk, Frans Duijm, Jan T van Ginkel, Ulrike Gehring and Bert Brunekreef
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:110
  3. Few studies have explored how noise might contribute to social health inequalities, and even fewer have considered infant mortality or its risk factors as the health event of interest.

    Authors: Wahida Kihal-Talantikite, Cindy M Padilla, Benoit Lalloue, Christophe Rougier, Jérôme Defrance, Denis Zmirou-Navier and Séverine Deguen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:109
  4. Anniston, Alabama, is the site of a former Monsanto plant where polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were manufactured from 1929 until 1971. Residents of Anniston are known to have elevated levels of PCBs. The obj...

    Authors: Zafar Aminov, Richard F Haase, Marian Pavuk and David O Carpenter
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:108
  5. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between measures of body composition and patterns of urine arsenic metabolites in the 1989–1991 baseline visit of the Strong Heart Study, a cardiovas...

    Authors: Matthew O Gribble, Ciprian M Crainiceanu, Barbara V Howard, Jason G Umans, Kevin A Francesconi, Walter Goessler, Ying Zhang, Ellen K Silbergeld, Eliseo Guallar and Ana Navas-Acien
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:107
  6. Regular cycling plays an important role in increasing physical activity levels but raises safety concerns for many people. While cyclists bear a higher risk of injury than most other types of road users, the r...

    Authors: Sandar Tin Tin, Alistair Woodward and Shanthi Ameratunga
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:106
  7. Experimental evidence suggests that inhaled particles from vehicle exhaust have systemic effects on inflammation, endothelial activation and oxidative stress. In the present study we assess the relationships o...

    Authors: Andreas M Neophytou, Jaime E Hart, Jennifer M Cavallari, Thomas J Smith, Douglas W Dockery, Brent A Coull, Eric Garshick and Francine Laden
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:105
  8. Drinking water supplies at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune were contaminated with trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, benzene, vinyl chloride and trans-1,2-dichloroethylene during 1968 through 1985.

    Authors: Perri Zeitz Ruckart, Frank J Bove and Morris Maslia
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:104
  9. Inflammation is a key factor in the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases. Early life exposure to microbial agents may have an effect on the development of the immune system and on respiratory health later in l...

    Authors: Lidia Casas, Christina Tischer, Inge M Wouters, Maties Torrent, Ulrike Gehring, Raquel Garcia-Esteban, Elisabeth Thiering, Dirkje S Postma, Johan de Jongste, Henriëtte A Smit, Alícia Borràs-Santos, Jan-Paul Zock, Anne Hyvärinen, Joachim Heinrich and Jordi Sunyer
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:103
  10. Environmental exposures, including dietary contaminants, may influence the developing immune system. This study assesses the association between maternal pre-parturition consumption of seafood and wheeze, ecze...

    Authors: Fabienne Pelé, Emma Bajeux, Hélène Gendron, Christine Monfort, Florence Rouget, Luc Multigner, Jean-François Viel and Sylvaine Cordier
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:102
  11. Previous studies in occupational exposure and lung function have focused only on the main effect of occupational exposure or genetics on lung function. Some disease-susceptible genes may be missed due to their...

    Authors: Shu-Yi Liao, Xihong Lin and David C Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:101
  12. Studies that have evaluated the association between exposure to gas appliances emissions at home with respiratory health in children obtained heterogeneous and limited results. The aim of this study is to anal...

    Authors: Ana Esplugues, Marisa Estarlich, Jordi Sunyer, Virginia Fuentes-Leonarte, Mikel Basterrechea, Martine Vrijheid, Isolina Riaño, Loreto Santa-Marina, Adonina Tardón, David Martinez and Ferran Ballester
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:100
  13. A home based tele-monitoring system was developed to assess the effects of heat stress (days > 25°C) on clinical and functional status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

    Authors: Melissa Jehn, Gavin Donaldson, Bahar Kiran, Uta Liebers, Klaus Mueller, Dieter Scherer, Wilfried Endlicher and Christian Witt
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:99
  14. This study examined the association between unusually high temperature and daily mortality (1997–2007) and hospital admissions (1997–2010) in the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Region (GMR) to assist in the devel...

    Authors: Leigh Ann Wilson, Geoffrey Gerard Morgan, Ivan Charles Hanigan, Fay H Johnston, Hisham Abu-Rayya, Richard Broome, Clive Gaskin and Bin Jalaludin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:98
  15. Short-term associations have been demonstrated between air pollution and respiratory mortality including pneumonia. Studies typically estimate exposure based only on place of residence, yet many are in hospita...

    Authors: Matthew Gittins, Roseanne McNamee, Melanie Carder, Iain Beverland and Raymond M Agius
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:97
  16. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Superfund is a federal government program implemented to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Twenty-six sites in South Carolina (SC) have bee...

    Authors: Kristen Burwell-Naney, Hongmei Zhang, Ashok Samantapudi, Chengsheng Jiang, Laura Dalemarre, LaShanta Rice, Edith Williams and Sacoby Wilson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:96
  17. In recent years, the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema symptoms in childhood has considerably increased in developing countries including Bolivia, possibly due to changes in lifestyle, envir...

    Authors: María Teresa Solis-Soto, Armando Patiño, Dennis Nowak and Katja Radon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:95
  18. A study of the impacts on respiratory health of the 2007 wildland fires in and around San Diego County, California is presented. This study helps to address the impact of fire emissions on human health by mode...

    Authors: Brian Thelen, Nancy HF French, Benjamin W Koziol, Michael Billmire, Robert Chris Owen, Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Tatiana Loboda and Shiliang Wu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:94
  19. We propose a new approach to assess the impact of traffic-related air pollution on public health by mapping personal trajectories using mobile phone tracking technology in an urban environment. Although this a...

    Authors: Hai-Ying Liu, Erik Skjetne and Mike Kobernus
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:93
  20. We report on a novel approach to the analysis of suspended particulate data in a rural setting in southern Ontario. Analyses of suspended particulate matter and associated air quality standards have convention...

    Authors: Aaron Orkin, Pamela Leece, Thomas Piggott, Paul Burt and Ray Copes
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:92
  21. Although a number of studies have found an association between aircraft noise and hypertension, there is a lack of evidence on associations with other cardiovascular disease. For road traffic noise, more studi...

    Authors: Sarah Floud, Marta Blangiardo, Charlotte Clark, Kees de Hoogh, Wolfgang Babisch, Danny Houthuijs, Wim Swart, Göran Pershagen, Klea Katsouyanni, Manolis Velonakis, Federica Vigna-Taglianti, Ennio Cadum and Anna L Hansell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:89
  22. Nearly all women shower or take baths during early pregnancy; however, bathing habits (i.e., shower and bath length and frequency) may be related to the risk of maternal hyperthermia and exposure to water disi...

    Authors: AJ Agopian, D Kim Waller, Philip J Lupo, Mark A Canfield and Laura E Mitchell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:88
  23. To determine the possible genotoxic effect of exposure to the smoke generated by biomass burning on workers involved in manual sugar cane harvesting.

    Authors: Henrique César Santejo Silveira, Marina Schmidt-Carrijo, Ervald Henrique Seidel, Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Andre Lopes Carvalho, Rui Manuel Vieira Reis and Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:87
  24. Maternal exposures to traffic-related air pollution have been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Exposures to traffic-related air pollutants are strongly influenced by time spent near traffic. However...

    Authors: Jun Wu, Chengsheng Jiang, Guillermo Jaimes, Scott Bartell, Andy Dang, Dean Baker and Ralph J Delfino
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:86
  25. As public awareness of consequences of environmental exposures has grown, estimating the adverse health effects due to simultaneous exposure to multiple pollutants is an important topic to explore. The challen...

    Authors: Zhichao Sun, Yebin Tao, Shi Li, Kelly K Ferguson, John D Meeker, Sung Kyun Park, Stuart A Batterman and Bhramar Mukherjee
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:85
  26. Elevated cardiovascular disease risk has been reported with proximity to highways or busy roadways, but proximity measures can be challenging to interpret given potential confounders and exposure error.

    Authors: Doug Brugge, Kevin Lane, Luz T Padró-Martínez, Andrea Stewart, Kyle Hoesterey, David Weiss, Ding Ding Wang, Jonathan I Levy, Allison P Patton, Wig Zamore and Mkaya Mwamburi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:84
  27. Although it has been well recognized that exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) is associated with cardiovascular mortality, the mechanisms and time course by which SHS exposure may lead to cardiovascular...

    Authors: Jinming Zhang, Shona C Fang, Murray A Mittleman, David C Christiani and Jennifer M Cavallari
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:83
  28. DNA adducts are widely used marker of DNA damage induced by environmental pollutants. The present study was designed to explore whether sperm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts were associated with sp...

    Authors: Guixiang Ji, Lifeng Yan, Shengmin Wu, Jining Liu, Lei Wang, Shenghu Zhang, Lili Shi and Aihua Gu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:82
  29. Traffic-related air pollution has been associated to a range of adverse health impacts, including decreased heart rate variability (HRV). The association between traffic-related pollution and HRV, however, has...

    Authors: Emmanuel S Baja, Joel D Schwartz, Brent A Coull, Gregory A Wellenius, Pantel S Vokonas and Helen H Suh
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:81
  30. Associations of bisphenol A and phthalates with chronic disease health outcomes are increasingly being investigated in epidemiologic studies. The majority of previous studies of within-person variability in ur...

    Authors: Mary K Townsend, Adrian A Franke, Xingnan Li, Frank B Hu and A Heather Eliassen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:80
  31. National data suggest widespread gestational exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OPs) based on the detection of OP metabolites in the urine of pregnant women. Associations with early infant neurobehavior a...

    Authors: Kimberly Yolton, Yingying Xu, Heidi Sucharew, Paul Succop, Mekibib Altaye, Ann Popelar, M Angela Montesano, Antonia M Calafat and Jane C Khoury
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:79
  32. We assessed indoor air quality in photocopier centers and investigated whether occupational exposure to emissions from photocopiers is associated with decline in lung function or changes in haematological para...

    Authors: Nithya Elango, Vallikkannu Kasi, Bhuvaneswari Vembhu and Jeyanthi Govindasamy Poornima
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:78
  33. Previous global burden of disease (GBD) estimates for household air pollution (HAP) from solid cookfuel use were based on categorical indicators of exposure. Recent progress in GBD methodologies that use integ...

    Authors: Kalpana Balakrishnan, Santu Ghosh, Bhaswati Ganguli, Sankar Sambandam, Nigel Bruce, Douglas F Barnes and Kirk R Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:77
  34. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a group of highly persistent chemicals that are widespread contaminants in wildlife and humans. Exposure to PFAS affects thyroid homeostasis in experimental animals and po...

    Authors: Yan Wang, Anne P Starling, Line S Haug, Merete Eggesbo, Georg Becher, Cathrine Thomsen, Gregory Travlos, Debra King, Jane A Hoppin, Walter J Rogan and Matthew P Longnecker
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:76
  35. The growing interest in research on the health effects of near-highway air pollutants requires an assessment of potential sources of error in exposure assignment techniques that rely on residential proximity t...

    Authors: Kevin J Lane, Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Jonathan I Levy, Christina H Fuller, Ron Parambi, Wig Zamore, Mkaya Mwamburi and Doug Brugge
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:75
  36. To confirm or refute the hypothesis that the morbidity of children (since birth to age 5) born and living in the heavily polluted (PM10, benzo[a]pyrene) eastern part of Ostrava, Czech Republic, was higher than th...

    Authors: Miroslav Dostal, Anna Pastorkova, Stepan Rychlik, Eva Rychlikova, Vlasta Svecova, Eva Schallerova and Radim J Sram
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:74
  37. Exposure to arsenic (As) is a global public health problem because of its association with various cancers and numerous other pathological effects, and millions of people worldwide are exposed to As on a regul...

    Authors: Nygerma L Dangleben, Christine F Skibola and Martyn T Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:73
  38. Tibet, average altitude more than 4,000 meters, is warming faster than anywhere else in China. The increase in temperatures may aggravate existing health problems and lead to the emergence of new risks. Howeve...

    Authors: Li Bai, Cirendunzhu, Pengcuociren, Dawa, Alistair Woodward, Xiaobo Liu, Baimaciwang, Dazhen, Shaowei Sang, Fangjun Wan, Lin Zhou, Junfang Xu, Xiaolu Li, Haixia Wu, Baorong Yu, Xiraoruodeng…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:71
  39. The co-Editors-in-Chief of Environmental Health respond to an unusual initiative taken by editors of 14 toxicology journals to influence pending decisions by the European Commission to establish a framework for r...

    Authors: Philippe Grandjean and David Ozonoff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:70
  40. The “common sense” intervention by toxicology journal editors regarding proposed European Union endocrine disrupter regulations ignores scientific evidence and well-established principles of chemical risk asse...

    Authors: Åke Bergman, Anna-Maria Andersson, Georg Becher, Martin van den Berg, Bruce Blumberg, Poul Bjerregaard, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Riana Bornman, Ingvar Brandt, Jayne V Brian, Stephanie C Casey, Paul A Fowler, Heloise Frouin, Linda C Giudice, Taisen Iguchi, Ulla Hass…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:69
  41. Fine particle (PM2.5) pollution related to combustion sources has been linked to a variety of adverse health outcomes. Although poorly understood, it is possible that organic carbon (OC) species, particularly tho...

    Authors: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel D Schwartz, Brent A Coull, Francesca Dominici and Helen H Suh
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:68
  42. Earaches and outer ear infections are commonly associated with swimming. In this study, we estimated the excess risk and health burden of earaches due to swimming in natural fresh and marine waters using resul...

    Authors: Timothy J Wade, Elizabeth A Sams, Michael J Beach, Sarah A Collier and Alfred P Dufour
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:67
  43. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) remain ubiquitous environmental contaminants. Developmental exposures are suspected to impact reproduction. Analysis of mixtures of PCBs may be problematic as components have a...

    Authors: Chris Gennings, Caroline Carrico, Pam Factor-Litvak, Nickilou Krigbaum, Piera M Cirillo and Barbara A Cohn
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:66
  44. Pesticide use patterns are essential inputs into human pesticide exposure models. Currently, data included for modeling purposes have mostly been collected in cross-sectional surveys. However, it is questionab...

    Authors: Xiangmei (May) Wu, Deborah H Bennett, Beate Ritz, Daniel J Tancredi and Irva Hertz-Picciotto
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:65
  45. Scientists and regulators have sought to understand whether and how physiologic dysregulation due to chronic stress exposure may enhance vulnerability to the adverse health effects of toxicant exposures. We co...

    Authors: Ami R Zota, Edmond D Shenassa and Rachel Morello-Frosch
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:64
  46. Environmental epidemiology, when focused on the life course of exposure to a specific pollutant, requires historical exposure estimates that are difficult to obtain for the full time period due to gaps in the ...

    Authors: Jan Beyea, Steven D Stellman, Susan Teitelbaum, Irina Mordukhovich and Marilie D Gammon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:62

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