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  1. Recent meta-analyses demonstrate an association between self-reported residential pesticide use and childhood leukemia risk. Self-reports may suffer from recall bias and provide information only on broad pesti...

    Authors: Nicole C Deziel, Joanne S Colt, Erin E Kent, Robert B Gunier, Peggy Reynolds, Benjamin Booth, Catherine Metayer and Mary H Ward
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:27
  2. In October 2013, the Radiation Medical Science Center of the Fukushima Medical University and the Section of Environment and Radiation of the International Agency for Research on Cancer held a joint workshop i...

    Authors: Tomoko Inamasu, Sara J Schonfeld, Masafumi Abe, Pernille E Bidstrup, Isabelle Deltour, Takashi Ishida, Tetsuo Ishikawa, Ausrele Kesminiene, Tetsuya Ohira, Hitoshi Ohto, Shinichi Suzuki, Isabelle Thierry-Chef, Hirooki Yabe, Seiji Yasumura, Joachim Schüz and Shunichi Yamashita
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:26
  3. Household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel combustion contributes to 2.6% of the global burden of disease. HAP emissions are an established lung carcinogen; however, associations with other cancer sites hav...

    Authors: Sowmya Josyula, Juan Lin, Xiaonan Xue, Nathaniel Rothman, Qing Lan, Thomas E Rohan and H Dean Hosgood III
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:24
  4. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used as flame retardants in many household items. Given concerns over their potential adverse health effects, we identified predictors and evaluated temporal changes ...

    Authors: Xiangmei (May) Wu, Deborah H Bennett, Rebecca E Moran, Andreas Sjödin, Richard S Jones, Daniel J Tancredi, Nicolle S Tulve, Matthew Scott Clifton, Maribel Colón, Walter Weathers and Irva Hertz-Picciotto
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:23
  5. Particularly in Asia, dense, traffic-intense, and usually high-rise cities are increasingly the norm. Is existing knowledge on exposure to road traffic noise, and on people’s response to such exposure, garnere...

    Authors: Alan Lex Brown, Kin Che Lam and Irene van Kamp
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:22
  6. Predictions of intense heat waves across the United States will lead to localized health impacts, most of which are preventable. There is a need to better understand the spatial variation in the morbidity impa...

    Authors: Shubhayu Saha, John W Brock, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, David R Easterling and George Luber
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:20
  7. Environmental pollutant exposure may play certain roles in the pathogenesis and progression of diabetes mellitus including gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We hypothesize that heavy metal exposure may trig...

    Authors: Siyuan Peng, Liangpo Liu, Xueqin Zhang, Joachim Heinrich, Jie Zhang, Karl-Werner Schramm, Qingyu Huang, Meiping Tian, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani and Heqing Shen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:19
  8. Epidemiological and animal-based studies have suggested that prenatal and postnatal fluoride exposure has adverse effects on neurodevelopment. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between expo...

    Authors: Ashley J Malin and Christine Till
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:17
  9. Experimental studies investigating the effects of endocrine disruptors frequently identify potential unconventional dose-response relationships called non-monotonic dose-response (NMDR) relationships. Standard...

    Authors: Fabien Lagarde, Claire Beausoleil, Scott M Belcher, Luc P Belzunces, Claude Emond, Michel Guerbet and Christophe Rousselle
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:13
  10. While there is evidence that maternal exposure to benzene is associated with spina bifida in offspring, to our knowledge there have been no assessments to evaluate the role of multiple hazardous air pollutants...

    Authors: Michael D Swartz, Yi Cai, Wenyaw Chan, Elaine Symanski, Laura E Mitchell, Heather E Danysh, Peter H Langlois and Philip J Lupo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:16
  11. The acquisition of a modern lifestyle may explain variations in asthma prevalence between urban and rural areas in developing countries. However, the effects of lifestyle on asthma have been investigated as in...

    Authors: Alejandro Rodriguez, Maritza G Vaca, Martha E Chico, Laura C Rodrigues, Mauricio L Barreto and Philip J Cooper
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:15
  12. Studies suggest that higher breast cancer rates in urban areas persist after accounting for the prevalence of known risk factors, leading to speculation that urban environmental exposures, such as air pollutio...

    Authors: Erika Garcia, Susan Hurley, David O Nelson, Andrew Hertz and Peggy Reynolds
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:14
  13. There is mixed evidence suggesting that air pollution may be associated with increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders. We aimed to investigate the association between air pollution and non-specific p...

    Authors: Amar J Mehta, Laura D Kubzansky, Brent A Coull, Itai Kloog, Petros Koutrakis, David Sparrow, Avron Spiro III, Pantel Vokonas and Joel Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:10
  14. It is of critical importance to evaluate the role of environmental chemical exposures in premature birth. While a number of studies investigate this relationship, most utilize single exposure measurements duri...

    Authors: Yin-Hsiu Chen, Kelly K Ferguson, John D Meeker, Thomas F McElrath and Bhramar Mukherjee
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:9
  15. Prenatal and early life neurodevelopment is exquisitely sensitive to insult from environmental exposures. Identifying the effects of environmental toxicants on neurodevelopmental disorders is particularly impo...

    Authors: Sharon K Sagiv, Amy E Kalkbrenner and David C Bellinger
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:8
  16. The overall evidence for adverse health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) at levels of exposure normally experienced by the public is generally considered weak. However, whether long-term health effects ...

    Authors: Pita Spruijt, Anne B Knol, Arthur C Petersen and Erik Lebret
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:7
  17. The chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) among paddy farmers in was first reported in 1994 and has now become most important public health issue in dry zone of Sri Lanka. The objective was to iden...

    Authors: Channa Jayasumana, Priyani Paranagama, Suneth Agampodi, Chinthaka Wijewardane, Sarath Gunatilake and Sisira Siribaddana
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:6
  18. Although the association between lead and cardiovascular disease is well established, potential mechanisms are still poorly understood. Calcium metabolism plays a role in lead toxicity and thus, vitamin D rece...

    Authors: Min A Jhun, Howard Hu, Joel Schwartz, Marc G Weisskopf, Linda H Nie, David Sparrow, Pantel S Vokonas and Sung Kyun Park
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:5
  19. Epidemiologic studies have implicated wartime exposures to acetylcholinesterase (AChE)-inhibiting chemicals as etiologic factors in Gulf War illness (GWI), the multisymptom condition linked to military service...

    Authors: Lea Steele, Oksana Lockridge, Mary M Gerkovich, Mary R Cook and Antonio Sastre
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:4
  20. Most health effects studies of ozone and temperature have been performed in urban areas, due to the available monitoring data. We used observed and interpolated data to examine temperature, ozone, and mortalit...

    Authors: Jaime Madrigano, Darby Jack, G Brooke Anderson, Michelle L Bell and Patrick L Kinney
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:3
  21. In animal studies, perfluorinated alkyl substances affect growth and neuro-behavioural outcomes. Human epidemiological studies are sparse. The aim was to investigate the association between pregnancy serum con...

    Authors: Birgit Bjerre Høyer, Cecilia Høst Ramlau-Hansen, Carsten Obel, Henning Sloth Pedersen, Agnieszka Hernik, Victor Ogniev, Bo AG Jönsson, Christian H Lindh, Lars Rylander, Anna Rignell-Hydbom, Jens Peter Bonde and Gunnar Toft
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:2
  22. Wood dust is one of the oldest and one of the most common occupational exposures in the world. The present analyses examine the effect of lifetime exposure to wood dust in diverse occupational settings on lung...

    Authors: Eric Vallières, Javier Pintos, Marie-Elise Parent and Jack Siemiatycki
    Citation: Environmental Health 2015 14:1
  23. Several recent publications reflect debate on the issue of “endocrine disrupting chemicals” (EDCs), indicating that two seemingly mutually exclusive perspectives are being articulated separately and independen...

    Authors: R Thomas Zoeller, Åke Bergman, Georg Becher, Poul Bjerregaard, Riana Bornman, Ingvar Brandt, Taisen Iguchi, Susan Jobling, Karen A Kidd, Andreas Kortenkamp, Niels E Skakkebaek, Jorma Toppari and Laura N Vandenberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:118
  24. The economic stress hypothesis (ESH) predicts decreases in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) following economic decline. However, as many factors influence the SRB, this hypothesis is difficult to test empirically....

    Authors: Sebastian Schnettler and Sebastian Klüsener
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:117
  25. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are suggested to affect human fecundity through longer time to pregnancy (TTP). We studied the relationship between four abundant PFAS and TTP in pregnant women from Greenland,...

    Authors: Kristian T Jørgensen, Ina O Specht, Virissa Lenters, Cathrine C Bach, Lars Rylander, Bo AG Jönsson, Christian H Lindh, Aleksander Giwercman, Dick Heederik, Gunnar Toft and Jens Peter Bonde
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:116
  26. Human exposure to benzene is associated with multiple adverse health effects with an increased risk of developing carcinogenesis. Benzene exposure is known to affect many critical organs including the hematolo...

    Authors: Mark A D’Andrea and G Kesava Reddy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:115
  27. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are widely distributed in the environment and may have adverse effects on the immune system.

    Authors: Berrin Serdar, William G LeBlanc, Jill M Norris and L Miriam Dickinson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:114
  28. In Nigeria, approximately 69% of households use solid fuels as their primary source of domestic energy for cooking. These fuels produce high levels of indoor air pollution. This study aimed to determine whethe...

    Authors: Osita Kingsley Ezeh, Kingsley Emwinyore Agho, Michael John Dibley, John Joseph Hall and Andrew Nicolas Page
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:113
  29. Exposure to ambient air particulate matter (PM) has been linked to decline in pulmonary function and cardiovascular events possibly through inflammation. Little is known about individual exposure to ultrafine ...

    Authors: Yulia Olsen, Dorina Gabriela Karottki, Ditte Marie Jensen, Gabriel Bekö, Birthe Uldahl Kjeldsen, Geo Clausen, Lars-Georg Hersoug, Gitte Juel Holst, Aneta Wierzbicka, Torben Sigsgaard, Allan Linneberg, Peter Møller and Steffen Loft
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:112
  30. Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a poverty-driven activity practiced in over 70 countries worldwide. Zimbabwe is amongst the top ten countries using large quantities of mercury to extract gold from ...

    Authors: Nadine Steckling, Stephan Bose-O’Reilly, Paulo Pinheiro, Dietrich Plass, Dennis Shoko, Gustav Drasch, Ludovic Bernaudat, Uwe Siebert and Claudia Hornberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:111
  31. Few studies have used spatially resolved ambient particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of <10 μm (PM10) to examine the impact of PM10 on ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in China. The aim of our s...

    Authors: Meimei Xu, Yuming Guo, Yajuan Zhang, Dane Westerdahl, Yunzheng Mo, Fengchao Liang and Xiaochuan Pan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:109
  32. Previous studies suggest that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) may adversely affect breast cancer risk. Indoor air pollution from use of indoor stoves and/or fireplaces is an important source of ambient...

    Authors: Alexandra J White, Susan L Teitelbaum, Steven D Stellman, Jan Beyea, Susan E Steck, Irina Mordukhovich, Kathleen M McCarty, Jiyoung Ahn, Pavel Rossner Jr, Regina M Santella and Marilie D Gammon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:108
  33. In recent years there has been a trend to view the Citizens’ Observatory as an increasingly essential tool that provides an approach for better observing, understanding, protecting and enhancing our environmen...

    Authors: Hai-Ying Liu, Mike Kobernus, David Broday and Alena Bartonova
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:107
  34. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) present in the environment may disrupt thyroid hormones, which in early life are essential for brain development. Observational studies regarding this topic are still limi...

    Authors: Marijke de Cock, Michiel R de Boer, Marja Lamoree, Juliette Legler and Margot van de Bor
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:106
  35. Severe air pollution generated by forest fires is becoming an increasingly frequent public health management problem. We measured the association between forest fire smoke events and hospital emergency departm...

    Authors: Fay H Johnston, Stuart Purdie, Bin Jalaludin, Kara L Martin, Sarah B Henderson and Geoffrey G Morgan
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:105
  36. This study aimed to assess the relationship between cold temperature and daily mortality in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI), and to explore any differences in the population responses b...

    Authors: Ariana Zeka, Stephen Browne, Helen McAvoy and Patrick Goodman
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:104
  37. Chemicals that have estrogenic activity (EA) can potentially cause adverse health effects in mammals including humans, sometimes at low doses in fetal through juvenile stages with effects detected in adults. P...

    Authors: George D Bittner, Michael S Denison, Chun Z Yang, Matthew A Stoner and Guochun He
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:103
  38. Air pollution in Beijing, especially PM2.5, has received increasing attention in the past years. Despite Beijing being one of the most polluted cities in the world, there has still been a lack of quantitative res...

    Authors: Yijia Liang, Liqun Fang, Hui Pan, Kezhong Zhang, Haidong Kan, Jeffrey R Brook and Qinghua Sun
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:102
  39. Early life exposure to inorganic arsenic may be related to adverse health effects in later life. However, there are few data on postnatal arsenic exposure via human milk. In this study, we aimed to determine a...

    Authors: Md Rafiqul Islam, John Attia, Mohammad Alauddin, Mark McEvoy, Patrick McElduff, Christine Slater, Md Monirul Islam, Ayesha Akhter, Catherine d’Este, Roseanne Peel, Shahnaz Akter, Wayne Smith, Stephen Begg and Abul Hasnat Milton
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:101
  40. Many studies have examined the association between ambient temperature and mortality. However, less evidence is available on the temperature effects on gender- and age-specific emergency department visits, esp...

    Authors: Yue Zhang, Chenyang Yan, Haidong Kan, Junshan Cao, Li Peng, Jianming Xu and Weibing Wang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:100
  41. Births during 1968-1985 at Camp Lejeune were exposed to drinking water contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and benzene.

    Authors: Perri Zeitz Ruckart, Frank J Bove and Morris Maslia
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:99
  42. As pesticide use is increasing and proper handling training is lacking, exposure to pesticides and intoxications are an important public health problems among farmers in developing countries. This study descri...

    Authors: Dinesh Neupane, Erik Jørs and Lars Brandt
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:98
  43. There are potential adverse health risks to the mother and fetus from exposure to pesticides. Thus, studies of exposure to pesticides among pregnant women are of interest as they will assist with understanding...

    Authors: Ryan C Lewis, David E Cantonwine, Liza V Anzalota Del Toro, Antonia M Calafat, Liza Valentin-Blasini, Mark D Davis, Samuel E Baker, Akram N Alshawabkeh, José F Cordero and John D Meeker
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:97
  44. Some studies have noted an association between maternal occupational exposures to chlorinated solvents and birth defects in offspring, but data are lacking on the potential impact of industrial air emissions o...

    Authors: Jean D Brender, Mayura U Shinde, F Benjamin Zhan, Xi Gong and Peter H Langlois
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:96
  45. Mercury vapor poses a known health risk with no clearly established safe level of exposure. Consequently there is debate over whether the level of prolonged exposure to mercury vapor from dental amalgam fillin...

    Authors: Jennifer D Zwicker, Daniel J Dutton and John Charles Herbert Emery
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:95
  46. Exposure to air particulate matter is known to elevate blood biomarkers of inflammation and to increase cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. Major components of airborne particulate matter typically includ...

    Authors: Juan Jose Carmona, Tamar Sofer, John Hutchinson, Laura Cantone, Brent Coull, Arnab Maity, Pantel Vokonas, Xihong Lin, Joel Schwartz and Andrea A Baccarelli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2014 13:94

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