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  1. Cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg) cause toxicological renal effects, but the clinical relevance at low-level exposures in general populations is unclear. The objective of this study is to assess the ri...

    Authors: Johan Nilsson Sommar, Maria K Svensson, Bodil M Björ, Sölve I Elmståhl, Göran Hallmans, Thomas Lundh, Staffan MI Schön, Staffan Skerfving and Ingvar A Bergdahl
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:9
  2. Environmental exposures during pregnancy and early life may have adverse health effects. Single birth cohort studies often lack statistical power to tease out such effects reliably. To improve the use of exist...

    Authors: Ulrike Gehring, Maribel Casas, Bert Brunekreef, Anna Bergström, Jens Peter Bonde, Jérémie Botton, Cecile Chévrier, Sylvaine Cordier, Joachim Heinrich, Cynthia Hohmann, Thomas Keil, Jordi Sunyer, Christina G Tischer, Gunnar Toft, Magnus Wickman, Martine Vrijheid…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:8
  3. While air pollution exposures have been linked to cardiovascular outcomes, the contribution from acute gas and particle traffic-related pollutants remains unclear. Using a panel study design with repeated meas...

    Authors: Kyra Naumoff Shields, Jennifer M Cavallari, Megan J Olson Hunt, Mariana Lazo, Mario Molina, Luisa Molina and Fernando Holguin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:7
  4. Various epidemiological studies have suggested associations between environmental exposures and pregnancy outcomes. Some studies have tempted to combine information from various epidemiological studies using m...

    Authors: Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, Payam Dadvand, James Grellier, David Martinez and Martine Vrijheid
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:6
  5. Cellphone and cordless phone use is very prevalent among early adolescents, but the extent and types of use is not well documented. This paper explores how, and to what extent, New Zealand adolescents are typi...

    Authors: Mary Redmayne
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:5
  6. Over the past two decades, 12 large epidemiologic studies and 2 registries have focused on U.S. veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War Era. We conducted a review of these studies’ research tools to identify existi...

    Authors: Rebecca B McNeil, Catherine M Thomas, Steven S Coughlin, Elizabeth Hauser, Grant D Huang, Karen M Goldstein, Marcus R Johnson, Tyra Dunn-Thomas and Dawn T Provenzale
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:4
  7. Due to global mercury pollution and the adverse health effects of prenatal exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), an assessment of the economic benefits of prevented developmental neurotoxicity is necessary for any...

    Authors: Martine Bellanger, Céline Pichery, Dominique Aerts, Marika Berglund, Argelia Castaño, Mája ÄŒejchanová, Pierre Crettaz, Fred Davidson, Marta Esteban, Marc E Fischer, Anca Elena Gurzau, Katarina Halzlova, Andromachi Katsonouri, Lisbeth E Knudsen, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Gudrun Koppen…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:3
  8. Bronchial asthma is one of the most prevalent diseases in Arab children. Environmental pollution has been suggested to be considered causative of asthma, nasal symptoms and bronchitis in both children and adul...

    Authors: Nasser M Al-Daghri, Majed S Alokail, Sherif H Abd-Alrahman, Hossam M Draz, Sobhy M Yakout and Mario Clerici
    Citation: Environmental Health 2013 12:1
  9. Both nurture (environmental) and nature (genetic factors) play an important role in human disease etiology. Traditionally, these effects have been thought of as independent. This perspective is ill informed fo...

    Authors: Chen-yu Liu, Arnab Maity, Xihong Lin, Robert O Wright and David C Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:93
  10. Breast milk is the best source of nutrition for the newborn infant. However, since all infants cannot be breast-fed, there is a need for background data for setting adequate daily intakes. Previously, concentr...

    Authors: Karin Ljung Björklund, Marie Vahter, Brita Palm, Margaretha Grandér, Sanna Lignell and Marika Berglund
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:92
  11. Air pollution is associated with asthma exacerbations. We examined the associations of exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) with the risk of wheezing in preschool children, and...

    Authors: Agnes MM Sonnenschein-van der Voort, Yvonne de Kluizenaar, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Carmelo Gabriele, Hein Raat, Henriëtte A Moll, Albert Hofman, Frank H Pierik, Henk ME Miedema, Johan C de Jongste and Liesbeth Duijts
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:91
  12. In animals, anogenital distance (AGD) at birth reflects androgen levels during pregnancy and predicts adult AGD. Little is known about AGD in relation to female reproductive characteristics in humans, a questi...

    Authors: Jaime Mendiola, Manuela Roca, Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón, Maria-Pilar Mira-Escolano, José J López-Espín, Emily S Barrett, Shanna H Swan and Alberto M Torres-Cantero
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:90
  13. The cause of lung cancer is generally attributed to tobacco smoking. However lung cancer in never smokers accounts for 10 to 25% of all lung cancer cases. Arsenic, asbestos and radon are three prominent non-to...

    Authors: Roland Hubaux, Daiana D Becker-Santos, Katey SS Enfield, Stephen Lam, Wan L Lam and Victor D Martinez
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:89
  14. Although Integrated Environmental Health Monitoring (IEHM) is considered an essential tool to better understand complex environmental health issues, there is no consensus on how to develop such a programme. We...

    Authors: Hai-Ying Liu, Alena Bartonova, Mathilde Pascal, Roel Smolders, Erik Skjetne and Maria Dusinska
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:88
  15. Endocrine disrupting chemicals and carcinogens, some of which may not yet have been classified as such, are present in many occupational environments and could increase breast cancer risk. Prior research has i...

    Authors: James T Brophy, Margaret M Keith, Andrew Watterson, Robert Park, Michael Gilbertson, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Matthias Beck, Hakam Abu-Zahra, Kenneth Schneider, Abraham Reinhartz, Robert DeMatteo and Isaac Luginaah
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:87
  16. Animal and in vitro studies demonstrated a neurotoxic potential of brominated flame retardants, a group of chemicals used in many household and commercial products to prevent fire. Although the first reports o...

    Authors: Michał Kiciński, Mineke K Viaene, Elly Den Hond, Greet Schoeters, Adrian Covaci, Alin C Dirtu, Vera Nelen, Liesbeth Bruckers, Kim Croes, Isabelle Sioen, Willy Baeyens, Nicolas Van Larebeke and Tim S Nawrot
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:86
  17. Few studies of environmental justice examine inequities in drinking water contamination. Those studies that have done so usually analyze either disparities in exposure/harm or inequitable implementation of enviro...

    Authors: Carolina L Balazs, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Alan E Hubbard and Isha Ray
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:84
  18. In the absence of current cumulative dietary exposure assessments, this analysis was conducted to estimate exposure to multiple dietary contaminants for children, who are more vulnerable to toxic exposure than...

    Authors: Rainbow Vogt, Deborah Bennett, Diana Cassady, Joshua Frost, Beate Ritz and Irva Hertz-Picciotto
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:83
  19. The health effects of particulate air pollution are widely recognized and there is some evidence that the magnitude of these effects vary by particle component. We studied the effects of ambient fine particles...

    Authors: Ana Valdés, Antonella Zanobetti, Jaana I Halonen, Luis Cifuentes, Diego Morata and Joel Schwartz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:82
  20. Toenail-Hg levels are being used as a marker of methylmercury (MeHg) exposure in efforts to associate exposure with effects such as cardiovascular disease. There is a need to correlate this marker with more es...

    Authors: Thomas Hinners, Ami Tsuchiya, Alan H Stern, Thomas M Burbacher, Elaine M Faustman and Koenraad Mariën
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:81
  21. The causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) remain largely unknown and widely debated; however, evidence increasingly points to the importance of environmental exposures. A growing number of studies use geog...

    Authors: Kate Hoffman, Amy E Kalkbrenner, Veronica M Vieira and Julie L Daniels
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:80
  22. There is increasing evidence suggesting that Bisphenol A (BPA), one of the highest volume chemicals produced worldwide, can interfere with the body’s natural weight control mechanisms to promote obesity. Howev...

    Authors: He-xing Wang, Ying Zhou, Chuan-xi Tang, Jin-gui Wu, Yue Chen and Qing-wu Jiang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:79
  23. Effect of indoor air pollution (IAP) on birth weight remains largely unexplored but yet purported as the most important environmental exposure for pregnant women in developing countries due to the effects of s...

    Authors: Adeladza K Amegah, Jouni JK Jaakkola, Reginald Quansah, Gameli K Norgbe and Mawuli Dzodzomenyo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:78
  24. While several studies have investigated the effects of short-term air pollution on cardiovascular disease, less is known about its effects on cerebrovascular disease, including stroke and transient ischaemic a...

    Authors: Getahun Bero Bedada, Craig J Smith, Pippa J Tyrrell, Adrian A Hirst and Raymond Agius
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:77
  25. Braddock, Pennsylvania is home to the Edgar Thomson Steel Works (ETSW), one of the few remaining active steel mills in the Pittsburgh region. An economically distressed area, Braddock exceeds average annual (>...

    Authors: Brett J Tunno, Kyra Naumoff Shields, Paul Lioy, Nanjun Chu, Joseph B Kadane, Bambang Parmanto, Gede Pramana, Jennifer Zora, Cliff Davidson, Fernando Holguin and Jane E Clougherty
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:76
  26. Particulate matter air pollution has been associated with adverse health effects. The fraction of ambient particles that are mainly responsible for the observed health effects is still a matter of controversy....

    Authors: Anna Karakatsani, Antonis Analitis, Dimitra Perifanou, Jon G Ayres, Roy M Harrison, Anastasia Kotronarou, Ilias G Kavouras, Juha Pekkanen, Kaarle Hämeri, Gerard PA Kos, Jeroen J de Hartog, Gerard Hoek and Klea Katsouyanni
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:75
  27. Residents of geothermal areas are exposed to geothermal emissions and water containing hydrogen sulphide and radon. We aim to study the association of the residence in high temperature geothermal area with the...

    Authors: Adalbjorg Kristbjornsdottir and Vilhjalmur Rafnsson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:73
  28. Urban air pollution is an increasing health problem, particularly in Asia, where the combustion of fossil fuels has increased rapidly as a result of industrialization and socio-economic development. The advers...

    Authors: Heiman FL Wertheim, Dang Minh Ngoc, Marcel Wolbers, Ta Thi Binh, Nguyá»…n Thị Thanh Hải, Nguyá»…n Quỳnh Loan, Phạm Thanh Tú, Andreas Sjodin, Lovisa Romanoff, Zheng Li, Jochen F Mueller, Karen Kennedy, Jeremy Farrar, Kasia Stepniewska, Peter Horby, Annette Fox…
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:72
  29. Characterizing factors which determine susceptibility to air pollution is an important step in understanding the distribution of risk in a population and is critical for setting appropriate policies. We evalua...

    Authors: Ana G Rappold, Wayne E Cascio, Vasu J Kilaru, Susan L Stone, Lucas M Neas, Robert B Devlin and David Diaz-Sanchez
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:71
  30. Emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admissions (HA) data have been an indispensible resource for assessing acute morbidity impacts of air pollution. ED visits and HAs are types of health care visits w...

    Authors: A Winquist, M Klein, P Tolbert, WD Flanders, J Hess and SE Sarnat
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:70
  31. With the use of the third generation (3 G) mobile phones on the rise, social concerns have arisen concerning the possible health effects of radio frequency-electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) emitted by wideband ...

    Authors: Min Kyung Kwon, Joon Yul Choi, Sung Kean Kim, Tae Keun Yoo and Deok Won Kim
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:69
  32. Projections of health risks of climate change are surrounded with uncertainties in knowledge. Understanding of these uncertainties will help the selection of appropriate adaptation policies.

    Authors: J Arjan Wardekker, Arie de Jong, Leendert van Bree, Wim C Turkenburg and Jeroen P van der Sluijs
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:67
  33. In the United States, asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood across all socioeconomic classes and is the most frequent cause of hospitalization among children. Asthma exacerbations have been as...

    Authors: M Patricia Fabian, Natasha K Stout, Gary Adamkiewicz, Amelia Geggel, Cizao Ren, Megan Sandel and Jonathan I Levy
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:66
  34. Exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) is an important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in children. We hypothesised that there has been a growth in social inequality in children’s exposure to SHS at ...

    Authors: Charlotta Pisinger, Lene Hammer-Helmich, Anne Helms Andreasen, Torben Jørgensen and Charlotte Glümer
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:65
  35. Exposure to fine fractions of particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with increased hospital admissions and mortality for respiratory and cardiovascular disease in children and the elderly. This study aims to e...

    Authors: Beatriz Fátima Alves de Oliveira, Eliane Ignotti, Paulo Artaxo, Paulo Hilário do Nascimento Saldiva, Washington Leite Junger and Sandra Hacon
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:64
  36. Although many studies have documented health effects of ambient temperature, little evidence is available in subtropical or tropical regions, and effect modifiers remain uncertain. We examined the effects of d...

    Authors: Jun Yang, Chun-Quan Ou, Yan Ding, Ying-Xue Zhou and Ping-Yan Chen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:63
  37. Methylmercury (MeHg) is a neurotoxin primarily found in seafood; exposures in reproductive-age women are of concern due to vulnerability of the developing fetus. MeHg is mainly eliminated via an enterohepatic ...

    Authors: Mary C Sheehan, Thomas A Burke, Patrick N Breysse, Ana Navas-Acien, John McGready and Mary A Fox
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:62
  38. Traffic air pollution has been linked to cardiovascular mortality, which might be due to co-exposure to road traffic noise. Further, personal and lifestyle characteristics might modify any association.

    Authors: Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Steen Solvang Jensen, Matthias Ketzel, Mette Sørensen, Johnni Hansen, Steffen Loft, Anne Tjønneland and Kim Overvad
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:60
  39. Formaldehyde (HCHO) is a gas (available as a 37% concentrated solution, stabilized with methanol). The 10% dilution (approximately 4% formaldehyde) has been used as a fixative since the end of the 19th century...

    Authors: Cristina Zanini, Elisa Gerbaudo, Elisabetta Ercole, Anna Vendramin and Marco Forni
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:59
  40. This multicenter study is aimed at estimating changes in the effect of high temperatures on elderly mortality before and after the 2003 heat waves and following the introduction of heat prevention activities.

    Authors: Patrizia Schifano, Michela Leone, Manuela De Sario, Francesca de’Donato, Anna Maria Bargagli, Daniela D’Ippoliti, Claudia Marino and Paola Michelozzi
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:58
  41. Studies have shown associations of diabetes and endogenous hormones with exposure to a wide variety of organochlorines. We have previously reported positive associations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and...

    Authors: Victoria Persky, Julie Piorkowski, Mary Turyk, Sally Freels, Robert Chatterton Jr, John Dimos, H Leon Bradlow, Lin Kaatz Chary, Virlyn Burse, Terry Unterman, Daniel W Sepkovic and Kenneth McCann
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:57
  42. Many studies have examined the association between ambient temperature and mortality. However, less evidence is available on the temperature effects on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, especially in Chi...

    Authors: Zhaoxing Tian, Shanshan Li, Jinliang Zhang, Jouni JK Jaakkola and Yuming Guo
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:56
  43. The objective of this study is to characterize the effect of temperature on emergency department visits for asthma and modification of this association by season. This association is of interest in its own rig...

    Authors: Jessie P Buckley and David B Richardson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:55
  44. Occupational exposure to organic solvents during the 1st trimester of pregnancy has been associated with congenital anomalies. Organic solvents are also used in the home environments in paint products, but no stu...

    Authors: Dorrit Hjortebjerg, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Ester Garne, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen and Mette Sørensen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:54
  45. Evidence of a dose–response relationship between prenatal exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) and neurodevelopmental consequences in terms of IQ reduction, makes it possible to evaluate the economic consequences ...

    Authors: Céline Pichery, Martine Bellanger, Denis Zmirou-Navier, Nadine Fréry, Sylvaine Cordier, Anne Roue-LeGall, Philippe Hartemann and Philippe Grandjean
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:53

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