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  1. Numerous studies have found associations between extreme temperatures and human mortality but relatively few studies have been done in sub-tropical and tropical cities, especially in Asia. In this study we exa...

    Authors: William B Goggins, Emily YY Chan, Chunyuh Yang and Marc Chong
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:59
  2. Epidemiologic studies and animal models suggest that in utero arsenic exposure affects fetal health, with a negative association between maternal arsenic ingestion and infant birth weight often observed. Howev...

    Authors: Dennis Liang Fei, Devin C Koestler, Zhigang Li, Camilla Giambelli, Avencia Sanchez-Mejias, Julie A Gosse, Carmen J Marsit, Margaret R Karagas and David J Robbins
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:58
  3. A chemical plant manufacturing pesticides has been operating since the 1950’s in the Sacco River Valley (Central Italy). In 2005, high beta-hexachlorocyclohexane (Beta-HCH) concentrations were found in milk of...

    Authors: Daniela Porta, Fiorella Fantini, Elena De Felip, Francesco Blasetti, Annalisa Abballe, Valerio Dell’Orco, Valeria Fano, Anna Maria Ingelido, Silvia Narduzzi and Francesco Forastiere
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:57
  4. The identification of gene by environment (GxE) interactions has emerged as a challenging but essential task to fully understand the complex mechanism underlying multifactorial diseases. Until now, GxE interac...

    Authors: Marta Rava, Ismaïl Ahmed, Florence Demenais, Margaux Sanchez, Pascale Tubert-Bitter and Rachel Nadif
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:56
  5. The Mediterranean region is particularly vulnerable to the effect of summer temperature.

    Authors: Michela Leone, Daniela D’Ippoliti, Manuela De Sario, Antonis Analitis, Bettina Menne, Klea Katsouyanni, Francesca K de’ Donato, Xavier Basagana, Afif Ben Salah, Elsa Casimiro, Zeynep Dörtbudak, Carmen Iñiguez, Chava Peretz, Tanja Wolf and Paola Michelozzi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:55
  6. Aboriginal populations living in Canada’s northern regions are exposed to a number of persistent organic pollutants through their traditional diet which includes substantial amounts of predator fish species. E...

    Authors: Alexandra-Cristina Paunescu, Éric Dewailly, Sylvie Dodin, Evert Nieboer and Pierre Ayotte
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:54
  7. Assessing the detrimental health effects of chemicals requires the extrapolation of experimental data in animals to human populations. This is achieved by applying a default uncertainty factor of 100 to doses ...

    Authors: Olwenn V Martin, Scholze Martin and Andreas Kortenkamp
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:53
  8. Arsenic can naturally occur in the groundwater without an anthropogenic source of contamination. In Bangladesh over 50 million people are exposed to naturally occurring arsenic concentrations exceeding the Wor...

    Authors: Christine Marie George, Mary Gamble, Vesna Slavkovich, Diane Levy, Alauddin Ahmed, Habibul Ahsan and Joseph Graziano
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:52
  9. Recent epidemiological studies have examined the associations between air pollution and birth outcomes. Regulatory air quality monitors often used in these studies, however, were spatially sparse and unable to...

    Authors: Zev Ross, Kazuhiko Ito, Sarah Johnson, Michelle Yee, Grant Pezeshki, Jane E Clougherty, David Savitz and Thomas Matte
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:51
  10. This study estimates the potential population health burden from exposure to combustion-derived particulate air pollution in domestic settings in Ireland and Scotland.

    Authors: Karen S Galea, J Fintan Hurley, Hilary Cowie, Amy L Shafrir, Araceli Sánchez Jiménez, Sean Semple, Jon G Ayres and Marie Coggins
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:50
  11. Few studies have examined the relationship between weight status and objectively measured neighborhood greenness and no study has examined this relationship across the different stages of adulthood. This resea...

    Authors: Gavin Pereira, Hayley Christian, Sarah Foster, Bryan J Boruff, Fiona Bull, Matthew Knuiman and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:49
  12. Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) can adversely impact health but epidemiologic studies are limited in their abilities to assess long-term exposures and incorporate variability in indoor polluta...

    Authors: Hind Sbihi, Jeffrey R Brook, Ryan W Allen, Jason H Curran, Sharon Dell, Piush Mandhane, James A Scott, Malcolm R Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Timothy K Takaro, Stuart E Turvey, Amanda J Wheeler and Michael Brauer
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:48
  13. Exposure to pollutants including metals and particulate air pollution can alter DNA methylation. Yet little is known about intra-individual changes in DNA methylation over time in relationship to environmental...

    Authors: Molly L Kile, Shona Fang, Andrea A Baccarelli, Letizia Tarantini, Jennifer Cavallari and David C Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:47
  14. Sensitizing events may trigger and stimulate discursive renewal. From a discursive institutional perspective, changing discourses are the driving force behind the institutional dynamics of policy domains. Theo...

    Authors: Kristien R Stassen, Roel Smolders and Pieter Leroy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:46
  15. Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants, e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) has been suggested to negatively affect birth weight although epidemiologica...

    Authors: Sanna Lignell, Marie Aune, Per Ola Darnerud, Annika Hanberg, Susanna C Larsson and Anders Glynn
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:44
  16. Current day concentrations of ambient air pollution have been associated with a range of adverse health effects, particularly mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. In this rev...

    Authors: Gerard Hoek, Ranjini M Krishnan, Rob Beelen, Annette Peters, Bart Ostro, Bert Brunekreef and Joel D Kaufman
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:43
  17. As use of electrical devices has increased, social concerns about the possible effects of 60 Hz electromagnetic fields on human health have increased. Accordingly, the number of people who complain of various ...

    Authors: Sung Kean Kim, Jae Lim Choi, Min Kyung Kwon, Joon Yul Choi and Deok Won Kim
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:42
  18. Airborne fine particle mass concentrations (PM2.5) are used for ambient air quality management worldwide based in part on known cardiorespiratory health effects. While oxidative stress is generally thought to be ...

    Authors: Scott A Weichenthal, Krystal Godri Pollitt and Paul J Villeneuve
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:40
  19. Concentrations of outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) have been associated with cardiovascular disease. PM2.5 chemical composition may be responsible for effects of exposure to PM2.5.

    Authors: Min Sun, Joel D Kaufman, Sun-Young Kim, Timothy V Larson, Timothy R Gould, Joseph F Polak, Matthew J Budoff, Ana V Diez Roux and Sverre Vedal
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:39
  20. Ambient air pollution has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In Reykjavik, Iceland, air pollutant concentrations exceed official health limits several times every year. The ...

    Authors: Ragnhildur Gudrun Finnbjornsdottir, Helga Zoëga, Orn Olafsson, Throstur Thorsteinsson and Vilhjalmur Rafnsson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:38
  21. Although some studies mainly from Taiwan, Bangladesh and the United States, have suggested a consistent dose–response increase in the prevalence of hypertension with increasing arsenic exposure, the associatio...

    Authors: Xin Li, Bing Li, Shuhua Xi, Quanmei Zheng, Da Wang and Guifan Sun
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:37
  22. Fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) is a promising non-invasive index of airway inflammation that may be used to assess respiratory effects of air pollution. We evaluated FENO as a measure of airway inflam...

    Authors: Stefan Barath, Nicholas L Mills, Ellinor Ädelroth, Anna-Carin Olin and Anders Blomberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:36
  23. Immune suppression may be a critical effect associated with exposure to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), as indicated by recent data on vaccine antibody responses in children. Therefore, this information may b...

    Authors: Philippe Grandjean and Esben Budtz-Jørgensen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:35
  24. Exposure to air pollution has been demonstrated to increase the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight (LBW). Although evidence has accumulated on characteristics associated with increased risk of air poll...

    Authors: Takashi Yorifuji, Hiroo Naruse, Saori Kashima, Soshi Takao, Takeshi Murakoshi, Hiroyuki Doi and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:34
  25. There is now compelling evidence that epigenetic modifications link adult disease susceptibility to environmental exposures during specific life stages, including pre-pubertal development. Animal studies indic...

    Authors: Jung H Kim, Laura S Rozek, Amr S Soliman, Maureen A Sartor, Ahmed Hablas, Ibrahim A Seifeldin, Justin A Colacino, Caren Weinhouse, Muna S Nahar and Dana C Dolinoy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:33
  26. During September 2009, a large dust storm was experienced in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Extremely high levels of particulate matter were recorded, with daily average levels of coarse matter (<10 μm) p...

    Authors: Alistair Merrifield, Suzanne Schindeler, Bin Jalaludin and Wayne Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:32
  27. With increasing numbers and quantities of chemicals in commerce and use, scientific attention continues to focus on the environmental and public health consequences of chemical production processes and exposur...

    Authors: Paul A Schulte, Lauralynn T McKernan, Donna S Heidel, Andrea H Okun, Gary Scott Dotson, Thomas J Lentz, Charles L Geraci, Pamela E Heckel and Christine M Branche
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:31
  28. Over exposure to manganese (Mn) can damage the human central nervous system and potentially cause liver toxicity. Alcohol drinking is also one of the well-known harmful factors to hepatic organism. The interac...

    Authors: Qi Deng, Jing Liu, Qing Li, Kangcheng Chen, Zhenfang Liu, Yuefei Shen, Piye Niu, Yiping Yang, Yunfeng Zou and Xiaobo Yang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:30
  29. Bicycle commuting in an urban environment of high air pollution is known to be a potential health risk, especially for susceptible individuals. While risk management strategies aimed to reduce exposure to moto...

    Authors: Tom Cole-Hunter, Rohan Jayaratne, Ian Stewart, Matthew Hadaway, Lidia Morawska and Colin Solomon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:29
  30. Air pollution exposure is associated with hospital admissions and emergency room visits for cardiopulmonary disease and stroke. Iceland’s capital area, Reykjavik, has generally low air pollution levels, but tr...

    Authors: Hanne Krage Carlsen, Bertil Forsberg, Kadri Meister, Thorarinn Gíslason and Anna Oudin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:28
  31. Heatwaves are associated with significant health risks particularly among vulnerable groups. To minimize these risks, heat warning systems have been implemented. The question therefore is how effective these s...

    Authors: Ghasem (Sam) Toloo, Gerard FitzGerald, Peter Aitken, Kenneth Verrall and Shilu Tong
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:27
  32. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most prevalent birth defects. Housing renovations are a newly recognized source of indoor environmental pollution that is detrimental to health. A growing body of r...

    Authors: Zhen Liu, Xiaohong Li, Nana Li, Shengli Li, Kui Deng, Yuan Lin, Xinlin Chen, Fengzhi You, Jun Li, Dezhi Mu, Yanping Wang and Jun Zhu
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:25
  33. Few studies have supported an association between breast cancer and DDT, usually assessed with biomarkers that cannot discern timing of exposure, or differentiate between the accumulation of chronic low-dose v...

    Authors: Alexandra J White, Susan L Teitelbaum, Mary S Wolff, Steven D Stellman, Alfred I Neugut and Marilie D Gammon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:24
  34. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of brominated flame retardants commonly used in a wide range of products. Prenatal exposure to PBDEs has been associated with adverse neurodevelopment. Our ob...

    Authors: Megan K Horton, Sabine Bousleiman, Richard Jones, Andreas Sjodin, Xinhua Liu, Robin Whyatt, Ronald Wapner and Pam Factor-Litvak
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:23
  35. Cadmium (Cd) can cause renal damage and osteoporosis after high-level exposure. Recently such effects, including increased urinary excretion of calcium, have been shown also at low-level exposure, as measured ...

    Authors: Maria Wallin, Gerd Sallsten, Elisabeth Fabricius-Lagging, Christian Öhrn, Thomas Lundh and Lars Barregard
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:22
  36. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systems-based method used to determine potential impacts to the environment associated with a product throughout its life cycle. Conclusions from LCA studies can be applied to ...

    Authors: Kelly A Scanlon, George M Gray, Royce A Francis, Shannon M Lloyd and Peter LaPuma
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:21
  37. Residence near municipal solid waste incinerators, a major historical source of dioxin emissions, has been associated with increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in European studies. The aim of our study...

    Authors: Anjoeka Pronk, John R Nuckols, Anneclaire J De Roos, Matthew Airola, Joanne S Colt, James R Cerhan, Lindsay Morton, Wendy Cozen, Richard Severson, Aaron Blair, David Cleverly and Mary H Ward
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:20

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  38. Aromatic hydrocarbons emitted from gasoline-powered vehicles contribute to the formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), which increases the atmospheric mass concentration of fine particles (PM2.5). Here we e...

    Authors: Katherine von Stackelberg, Jonathan Buonocore, Prakash V Bhave and Joel A Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:19
  39. Exposure to air pollution is frequently associated with reductions in birth weight but results of available studies vary widely, possibly in part because of differences in air pollution metrics. Further insigh...

    Authors: Olivier Laurent, Jun Wu, Lianfa Li, Judith Chung and Scott Bartell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:18
  40. Flame retardant chemicals are used in materials on airplanes to slow the propagation of fire. These chemicals migrate from their source products and can be found in the dust of airplanes, creating the potentia...

    Authors: Joseph G Allen, Heather M Stapleton, Jose Vallarino, Eileen McNeely, Michael D McClean, Stuart J Harrad, Cassandra B Rauert and John D Spengler
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:17
  41. Previous studies found effect modification of associations between traffic-related air pollution and cardiovascular outcomes by polymorphisms in the hemochromatosis gene (HFE). As traffic-related air pollution...

    Authors: Melinda C Power, Marc G Weisskopf, Stacey E Alexeeff, Robert O Wright, Brent A Coull, Avron Spiro III and Joel Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:16
  42. Tools for estimating population exposures to environmental carcinogens are required to support evidence-based policies to reduce chronic exposures and associated cancers. Our objective was to develop indicator...

    Authors: Eleanor Setton, Perry Hystad, Karla Poplawski, Roslyn Cheasley, Alejandro Cervantes-Larios, C Peter Keller and Paul A Demers
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:15
  43. A travel mode shift to active transportation such as bicycling would help reduce traffic volume and related air pollution emissions as well as promote increased physical activity level. Cyclists, however, are ...

    Authors: Sarah Jarjour, Michael Jerrett, Dane Westerdahl, Audrey de Nazelle, Cooper Hanning, Laura Daly, Jonah Lipsitt and John Balmes
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:14
  44. Low-level environmental cadmium exposure and neurotoxicity has not been well studied in adults. Our goal was to evaluate associations between neurocognitive exam scores and a biomarker of cumulative cadmium ex...

    Authors: Timothy Ciesielski, David C Bellinger, Joel Schwartz, Russ Hauser and Robert O Wright
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:13
  45. Hot and cold temperatures have been associated with childhood asthma. However, the relationship between daily temperature variation and childhood asthma is not well understood. This study aimed to examine the ...

    Authors: Zhiwei Xu, Cunrui Huang, Hong Su, Lyle R Turner, Zhen Qiao and Shilu Tong
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:12
  46. Several studies have evaluated the association between forest fire smoke and acute exacerbations of respiratory diseases, but few have examined effects on pharmaceutical dispensations. We examine the associati...

    Authors: Catherine T Elliott, Sarah B Henderson and Victoria Wan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:11
  47. Use of mobile phones has rapidly risen among adolescents despite a lack of scientific certainty on their health risks. Risk perception is an important determinant of behavior, and studies on adolescents’ risk ...

    Authors: Hur Hassoy, Raika Durusoy and Ali Osman Karababa
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:10

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