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  1. Motorised travel and associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generate substantial health costs; in the case of motorised travel, this may include contributing to rising obesity levels. Obesity has in turn been ...

    Authors: Anna Goodman, Christian Brand and David Ogilvie
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:52
  2. Hazardous air pollutant exposures are common in urban areas contributing to increased risk of cancer and other adverse health outcomes. While recent analyses indicate that New York City residents experience si...

    Authors: Iyad Kheirbek, Sarah Johnson, Zev Ross, Grant Pezeshki, Kazuhiko Ito, Holger Eisl and Thomas Matte
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:51
  3. The relationship between pet exposure and the respiratory disease in childhood has been a controversial topic, much is still unknown about the nature of the associations between pet exposure and children’s res...

    Authors: Guang-Hui Dong, Jing Wang, Miao-Miao Liu, Da Wang, Yungling Leo Lee and Ya-Dong Zhao
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:50
  4. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), known endocrine disruptors, were banned in 1979 but persist in the environment. Previous studies are inconsistent regarding prenatal exposure to PCBs and pregnancy outcomes. W...

    Authors: Katrina L Kezios, Xinhua Liu, Piera M Cirillio, Olga I Kalantzi, Yunzhu Wang, Myrto X Petreas, June-Soo Park, Gary Bradwin, Barbara A Cohn and Pam Factor-Litvak
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:49
  5. Land Use Regression models (LUR) are useful to estimate the spatial variability of air pollution in urban areas. Few studies have evaluated the stability of spatial contrasts in outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) con...

    Authors: Giulia Cesaroni, Daniela Porta, Chiara Badaloni, Massimo Stafoggia, Marloes Eeftens, Kees Meliefste and Francesco Forastiere
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:48
  6. Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) has been linked to various adverse health outcomes. Personal PAH exposures are usually measured by personal monitoring or biomarkers, which are costly and impr...

    Authors: Jun Wu, Thomas Tjoa, Lianfa Li, Guillermo Jaimes and Ralph J Delfino
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:47
  7. Recent observations in in vitro and in vivo models suggest that arsenic (As) is an endocrine disruptor at environmentally-relevant levels. When exposed to As, male rats and mice show steroidogenic dysfunction tha...

    Authors: Weipan Xu, Huaqiong Bao, Feng Liu, Liangpo Liu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Jianwen She, Sijun Dong, Min Cai, Lianbing Li, Chuanhai Li and Heqing Shen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:46
  8. Increases in ambient particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm (PM2.5) are associated with asthma morbidity and mortality. The overall objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that PM2.5 deri...

    Authors: James G Wagner, Masako Morishita, Gerald J Keeler and Jack R Harkema
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:45
  9. The Inuit in Greenland have a high average consumption of marine species and are highly exposed to methylmercury, which in other studies has been related to hypertension. Data on the relation between methylmer...

    Authors: Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Michael Davidsen and Peter Bjerregaard
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:44
  10. Ingestion of groundwater with high concentrations of inorganic arsenic has been linked to adverse health outcomes, including bladder cancer, however studies have not consistently observed any elevation in risk...

    Authors: Jennifer L Beebe-Dimmer, Priyanka T Iyer, Jerome O Nriagu, Greg R Keele, Shilpin Mehta, Jaymie R Meliker, Ethan M Lange, Ann G Schwartz, Kimberly A Zuhlke, David Schottenfeld and Kathleen A Cooney
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:43
  11. The magic word ‘complexity’ has been buzzing around in science, policy and society for quite some time now. There seems to be a common feel for a ‘new way’ of doing things, for overcoming the limits of traditi...

    Authors: Hans Keune
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S19

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  12. The current paradigm for the assessment of the health risk of chemical substances focuses primarily on the effects of individual substances for determining the doses of toxicological concern in order to inform...

    Authors: Denis A Sarigiannis and Ute Hansen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S18

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  13. The HENVINET Health and Environment Network aimed to enhance the use of scientific knowledge in environmental health for policy making. One of the goals was to identify and evaluate Decision Support Tools (DST...

    Authors: Hai-Ying Liu, Alena Bartonova, Panagiotis Neofytou, Aileen Yang, Michael J Kobernus, Emanuele Negrenti and Christos Housiadas
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S17

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  14. The purpose of the EU FP6 funded coordination action HENVINET was to create a permanent network of environment and health professionals. The main outcome is a networking portal (

    Authors: Sonja Grossberndt, Peter van den Hazel and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S16

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  15. The fields of environment and health are both interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary, and until recently had little engagement in social networking designed to cross disciplinary boundaries. The EU FP6 proje...

    Authors: Peter van den Hazel, Hans Keune, Scott Randall, Aileen Yang, David Ludlow and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S15

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  16. The EU FP6 HENVINET project reviewed the potential relevance of a focus on climate change related health effects for climate change policies at the city region level. This was undertaken by means of a workshop...

    Authors: Hans Keune, David Ludlow, Peter van den Hazel, Scott Randall and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S14

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  17. Nanoparticles (NPs) cause concern for health and safety as their impact on the environment and humans is not known. Relatively few studies have investigated the toxicological and environmental effects of expos...

    Authors: Suchi Smita, Shailendra K Gupta, Alena Bartonova, Maria Dusinska, Arno C Gutleb and Qamar Rahman
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S13

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  18. Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most serious skin cancers. It is caused by neural crest-derived melanocytes - pigmented cells normally present in the epidermis and, sometimes, in the dermis.

    Authors: Katarina Volkovova, Dagmar Bilanicova, Alena Bartonova, Silvia Letašiová and Maria Dusinska
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S12

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  19. Many epidemiological studies and reviews have been performed to identify the causes of bladder cancer. The aim of this review is to investigate the links between various environmental risk factors and cancer o...

    Authors: Silvia Letašiová, Alžbeta Medveďová, Andrea Šovčíková, Mária Dušinská, Katarína Volkovová, Claudia Mosoiu and Alena Bartonová
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S11

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  20. Polychlorinated dioxins and –furans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated-biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental toxicants that have been proven to influence thyroid metabolism both in animal studies and in human beings. ...

    Authors: Marike M Leijs, Gavin W ten Tusscher, Kees Olie, Tom van Teunenbroek, Wim MC van Aalderen, Pim de Voogt, Tom Vulsma, Alena Bartonova, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Claudia Mosoiu, Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez, Gemma Calamandrei and Janna G Koppe
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S10

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  21. Development of graphical/visual presentations of cancer etiology caused by environmental stressors is a process that requires combining the complex biological interactions between xenobiotics in living and occ...

    Authors: Domenico F Merlo, Rosangela Filiberti, Michael Kobernus, Alena Bartonova, Marija Gamulin, Zeljko Ferencic, Maria Dusinska and Aleksandra Fucic
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S9

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  22. The role of steroids in carcinogenesis has become a major concern in environmental protection, biomonitoring, and clinical research. Although historically oestrogen has been related to development of reproduct...

    Authors: Aleksandra Fucic, Marija Gamulin, Zeljko Ferencic, Jelena Katic, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Alena Bartonova and Domenico F Merlo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S8

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  23. Apply a recently developed expert elicitation procedure to evaluate the state of the current knowledge of the two brominated flame retardants (BFRs) most commonly used today; decabromo-diphenyl ether (decaBDE)...

    Authors: Solveig Ravnum, Karin E Zimmer, Hans Keune, Arno C Gutleb, Albertinka J Murk, Janna G Koppe, Brooke Magnanti, Jan L Lyche, Gunnar S Eriksen, Erik Ropstad, Janneche U Skaare, Michael Kobernus, Aileen Yang, Alena Bartonova and Martin Krayer von Krauss
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S7

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  24. The EU 6th Framework Program (FP)-funded Health and Environment Network (HENVINET) aimed to support informed policy making by facilitating the availability of relevant knowledge on different environmental heal...

    Authors: Karin Elisabeth Zimmer, Arno Christian Gutleb, Solveig Ravnum, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Albertinka J Murk, Erik Ropstad, Janneche Utne Skaare, Gunnar Sundstøl Eriksen, Jan Ludvig Lyche, Janna G Koppe, Brooke L Magnanti, Aileen Yang, Alena Bartonova and Hans Keune
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S6

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  25. Organophosphate pesticides are widely used on food crops grown in the EU. While they have been banned from indoor use in the US for a decade due to adverse health effects, they are still the most prevalent pes...

    Authors: Margaret Saunders, Brooke L Magnanti, Sara Correia Carreira, Aileen Yang, Urinda Alamo-Hernández, Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez, Gemma Calamandrei, Janna G Koppe, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Hans Keune and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  26. For almost 20 years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been assessing the potential health risks associated with climate change; with increasingly convincing evidence that climate change presen...

    Authors: Bertil Forsberg, Lennart Bråbäck, Hans Keune, Mike Kobernus, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Aileen Yang and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S4

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  27. The FP6 EU HENVINET project aimed at synthesizing the scientific information available on a number of topics of high relevance to policy makers in environment and health. The goal of the current paper is to re...

    Authors: Hans Keune, Arno C Gutleb, Karin E Zimmer, Solveig Ravnum, Aileen Yang, Alena Bartonova, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Erik Ropstad, Gunnar S Eriksen, Margaret Saunders, Brooke Magnanti and Bertil Forsberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  28. This White Paper highlights the developmental period as a plastic phase, which allows the organism to adapt to changes in the environment to maintain or improve reproductive capability in part through sustaine...

    Authors: Robert Barouki, Peter D Gluckman, Philippe Grandjean, Mark Hanson and Jerrold J Heindel
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:42
  29. To reduce arsenic (As) exposure, we evaluated the effectiveness of training community members to perform water arsenic (WAs) testing and provide As education compared to sending representatives from outside co...

    Authors: Christine Marie George, Alexander van Geen, Vesna Slavkovich, Ashit Singha, Diane Levy, Tariqul Islam, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Joyce Moon-Howard, Alessandro Tarozzi, Xinhua Liu, Pam Factor-Litvak and Joseph Graziano
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:41
  30. Adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight and premature birth have been previously linked with exposure to ambient air pollution. Most studies relied on a limited number of monitors in the region of inte...

    Authors: Itai Kloog, Steven J Melly, William L Ridgway, Brent A Coull and Joel Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:40
  31. An excess incidence of brain cancer in farmers has been noted in several studies. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health developed the Upper Midwest Health Study (UMHS) as a case–control stu...

    Authors: James H Yiin, Avima M Ruder, Patricia A Stewart, Martha A Waters, Tania Carreón, Mary Ann Butler, Geoffrey M Calvert, Karen E Davis-King, Paul A Schulte, Jack S Mandel, Roscoe F Morton, Douglas J Reding and Kenneth D Rosenman
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:39
  32. Chronic exposure to high level of inorganic arsenic in drinking water has been associated with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Most research has been ecological in nature and has focused on high levels of arsenic expos...

    Authors: Md Rafiqul Islam, Ismail Khan, Sheikh Md Nazmul Hassan, Mark McEvoy, Catherine D’Este, John Attia, Roseanne Peel, Munira Sultana, Shahnaz Akter and Abul Hasnat Milton
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:38
  33. The most prominent non-occupational source of exposure to methylmercury is the consumption of fish. In this study we examine a fish consuming population to determine the extent of temporal exposure and investi...

    Authors: Ami Tsuchiya, Rob Duff, Alan H Stern, Jim W White, Finn Krogstad, Thomas M Burbacher, Elaine M Faustman and Koenraad Mariën
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:37
  34. The first case–control study on mobile phone use and brain tumour risk among children and adolescents (CEFALO study) has recently been published. In a commentary published in Environmental Health, Söderqvist a...

    Authors: Denis Aydin, Maria Feychting, Joachim Schüz and Martin Röösli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:35
  35. The area of Gela was included among the 57 Italian polluted sites of national interest for environmental remediation because of its widespread contamination from a petrochemical complex. The present study inve...

    Authors: Roberto Pasetto, Amerigo Zona, Roberta Pirastu, Achille Cernigliaro, Gabriella Dardanoni, Sebastiano Pollina Addario, Salvatore Scondotto and Pietro Comba
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:34
  36. Damp and mould in homes have been established as risk factors for respiratory health. There is a need for a relatively straightforward assessment of the home that quantifies this risk.

    Authors: Michael D Keall, Julian Crane, Michael G Baker, Kristin Wickens, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Malcolm Cunningham
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:33
  37. Rodent infestations are a public health problem in poor urban communities. The use of illegal street pesticides to control rodent infestations with resulting poisonings is an additional public health concern r...

    Authors: Rifqah Roomaney, Rodney Ehrlich and Hanna-Andrea Rother
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:32
  38. Accumulating evidence indicates that in utero exposure to arsenic is associated with congenital defects and long-term disease consequences including cancers. Recent studies suggest that arsenic carcinogenesis res...

    Authors: Ponpat Intarasunanont, Panida Navasumrit, Somchamai Waraprasit, Krittinee Chaisatra, William A Suk, Chulabhorn Mahidol and Mathuros Ruchirawat
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:31
  39. Since its founding a decade ago, Environmental Health has received more than one thousand manuscripts. Last year marked the first time we published over 100 articles. The journal web site currently receives over ...

    Authors: Philippe Grandjean and David Ozonoff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:30
  40. Environmental epidemiology and biomonitoring studies typically rely on biological samples to assay the concentration of non-persistent exposure biomarkers. Between-participant variations in sampling conditions...

    Authors: Marion Mortamais, Cécile Chevrier, Claire Philippat, Claire Petit, Antonia M Calafat, Xiaoyun Ye, Manori J Silva, Christian Brambilla, Marinus JC Eijkemans, Marie-Aline Charles, Sylvaine Cordier and Rémy Slama
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:29
  41. All the relevant risk factors contributing to breast cancer etiology are not fully known. Exposure to organochlorine pesticides has been linked to an increased incidence of the disease, although not all data h...

    Authors: Luis D Boada, Manuel Zumbado, Luis Alberto Henríquez-Hernández, Maira Almeida-González, Eva E Álvarez-León, Lluis Serra-Majem and Octavio P Luzardo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:28
  42. Odor exposure is an environmental stressor that is responsible of many citizens complains about air pollution in non-urban areas. However, information about the exposure-response relation is scarce. One of the...

    Authors: Victoria Blanes-Vidal, Esmaeil S Nadimi, Thomas Ellermann, Helle V Andersen and Per Løfstrøm
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:27
  43. Relationships between chronic exposures to air pollution and respiratory health outcomes have yet to be clearly articulated for adults. Recent data from nationally representative surveys suggest increasing dis...

    Authors: Keeve E Nachman and Jennifer D Parker
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:25
  44. Sealants and other building materials sold in the U.S. from 1958 - 1971 were commonly manufactured with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at percent quantities by weight. Volatilization of PCBs from constructio...

    Authors: David L MacIntosh, Taeko Minegishi, Matthew A Fragala, Joseph G Allen, Kevin M Coghlan, James H Stewart and John F McCarthy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:24
  45. Few epidemiological studies of air pollution have used residential histories to develop long-term retrospective exposure estimates for multiple ambient air pollutants and vehicle and industrial emissions. We p...

    Authors: Perry Hystad, Paul A Demers, Kenneth C Johnson, Jeff Brook, Aaron van Donkelaar, Lok Lamsal, Randall Martin and Michael Brauer
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:22

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