Drinking water treatment and risk of cancer death in Wisconsin.

abstract：:Naturally occurring radon is a relatively ubiquitous environmental carcinogen to which large numbers of people can be exposed over their lifetimes. The accumulation of radon in homes, therefore, has led to a large program to determine the effects of the densely ionizing alpha particles that are produced when radon dec...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wolff S,Afzal V,Jostes RF,Wiencke JK

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increased concern over health effects related to potential exposure of building occupants to bioaerosols. We report the case of a worker with a respiratory illness related to bioaerosol exposure in a water-damaged building with extensive fungal contamination. We performed environmental tests to evaluate...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Trout D,Bernstein J,Martinez K,Biagini R,Wallingford K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following our first report on elevated polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) concentrations in California women, we expanded our investigation to include diverse groups of local women. We analyzed additional adipose and serum samples collected in the late 1990s from San Francisco Bay Area women participating in a breas...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Petreas M,She J,Brown FR,Winkler J,Windham G,Rogers E,Zhao G,Bhatia R,Charles MJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further the development and application of exposure markers in field investigations in reproductive epidemiology, we have synthesized recent examinations of the issues surrounding exposure measurements in reproductive epidemiology. The specific goals of this paper are to define exposure biomarkers and explore their...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hogue CJ,Brewster MA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In an effort to decrease the rates of smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been proposed as an effective smoking cessation tool. However, little is known about their toxicological impacts. This is concerning given that e-cigarette use is perceived as less harmful...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Church JS,Chace-Donahue F,Blum JL,Ratner JR,Zelikoff JT,Schwartzer JJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by diverse developmental abnormalities, progressive bone marrow failure, and a markedly increased incidence of malignancy. FA cells are hypersensitive to DNA cross-linking agents, suggesting a general defect in the repair of DNA cross-links. Some for...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vilcheck SK,O'Brien TJ,Pritchard DE,Ha L,Ceryak S,Fornsaglio JL,Patierno SR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sodium selenite administered intragastrically in repeated doses to rats receiving ethylmercuric chloride po in various repeated doses (0.25 or 2.5 mg Hg/kg) on the excretion, whole-body retention, and organ distribution of mercury was studied. Selenium was found to affect the distribution of ethylmercury...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brzeźnicka EA,Chmielnicka J

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although patients with heart failure (HF) have been identified as particularly susceptible to the acute effects of air pollution, the effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on patients with this increasingly prevalent disease are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to examine the mort...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Medina-Ramón M,Goldberg R,Melly S,Mittleman MA,Schwartz J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have been conducted to identify risk factors for balance and vestibular dysfunction in general populations, but previous studies have reported evidence of adverse effects of lead and cadmium on balance control in high-risk groups. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the relationship between blood lead and ca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Min KB,Lee KJ,Park JB,Min JY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are persistent, bioaccumulative, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. OBJECTIVES:We used handwipes to estimate exposure to PBDEs in house dust among toddlers and examined sex, age, breast-feeding, race, and parents' education as predictors of serum PBDEs. METHODS:Eight...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stapleton HM,Eagle S,Sjödin A,Webster TF

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing interest in the development and validation of biomarkers for use in biochemical/molecular epidemiological studies. Though the area of neurotoxicology has received much attention in the past several years, it still lags behind with regard to the development of biomarkers, particularly those of he...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Costa LG

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic tubing soft and flexible. Animal data show that adverse effects of DEHP exposure may include reduced fertility, reduced sperm production in males, and ovarian dysfunction in females. Known treatments that involve high DEHP exposures are...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rais-Bahrami K,Nunez S,Revenis ME,Luban NL,Short BL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean pollution affects marine organisms and ecosystems as well as humans. The International Oceanographic Commission recommends ocean health monitoring programs to investigate the presence of marine contaminants and the health of threatened species and the use of multiple and early-warning biomarker approac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Godard-Codding CA,Clark R,Fossi MC,Marsili L,Maltese S,West AG,Valenzuela L,Rowntree V,Polyak I,Cannon JC,Pinkerton K,Rubio-Cisneros N,Mesnick SL,Cox SB,Kerr I,Payne R,Stegeman JJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular epidemiology has significant potential in preventing cancer and other diseases caused by environmental exposures (related to lifestyle, occupation, or ambient pollution). This approach attempts to prevent cancer by incorporating laboratory methods to document the molecular dose and preclinical effects of car...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Perera FP,Mooney LA,Dickey CP,Santella RM,Bell D,Blaner W,Tang D,Whyatt RM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured volatile organic compound (VOC) exposures in multiple locations for a diverse population of children who attended two inner-city schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fifteen common VOCs were measured at four locations: outdoors (O), indoors at school (S), indoors at home (H), and in personal samples (P). Con...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Adgate JL,Church TR,Ryan AD,Ramachandran G,Fredrickson AL,Stock TH,Morandi MT,Sexton K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors. We focus on small-area analyses, encompassing disease mapping, geographic correlation studies, disease clusters, and clus...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Elliott P,Wartenberg D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population monitoring using methods of molecular epidemiology combined with reliable data on exposure is an extremely powerful approach to determine the effect of mutagens on human populations. Although human blood and urine have traditionally been used for biomonitoring, an increase in the use of placental and buccal...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Srám RJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adverse cardiorespiratory health is associated with exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM). The highest PM concentrations in London occur in proximity to waste transfer stations (WTS), sites that experience high numbers of dust-laden, heavy-duty diesel vehicles transporting industrial and household wast...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Godri KJ,Duggan ST,Fuller GW,Baker T,Green D,Kelly FJ,Mudway IS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenic nickel compounds are usually found to be weak mutagens; therefore these compounds may not exert their carcinogenic activity through conventional genotoxic mechanisms. On the other hand, the activities of many nickel compounds have not been adequately investigated. We evaluated the genotoxic activities of ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Au WW,Heo MY,Chiewchanwit T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tens of millions of Americans suffer from a range of adverse health outcomes due to noise exposure, including heart disease and hearing loss. Reducing environmental noise pollution is achievable and consistent with national prevention goals, yet there is no national plan to reduce environmental noise polluti...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hammer MS,Swinburn TK,Neitzel RL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global climate change is anticipated to reduce future cereal yields and threaten food security, thus potentially increasing the risk of undernutrition. The causation of undernutrition is complex, and there is a need to develop models that better quantify the potential impacts of climate change on population ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lloyd SJ,Kovats RS,Chalabi Z

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human health and aquatic animal health are organically related at three distinct interfaces. Aquatic animals serve as important contributors to the nutritional protein, lipid, and vitamin requirements of humans; as carriers and transmitters of many infectious and parasitic diseases to which humans are susceptible; and...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dawe CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been associated with cardiovascular mortality. Pathophysiologic pathways leading from ETS exposure to cardiopulmonary disease are still being explored. Reduced cardiac autonomic function, as measured by heart rate variability (HRV), has been associated with cardiac vulnerability a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pope CA 3rd,Eatough DJ,Gold DR,Pang Y,Nielsen KR,Nath P,Verrier RL,Kanner RE

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs, dioxins), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental endocrine disruptors that have half-lives of 7-10 years in the human body and have toxicities that probably include carcinogenesis. A high ratio of 4-hydroxyl estradiol (4-O...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wang SL,Chang YC,Chao HR,Li CM,Li LA,Lin LY,Päpke O

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential impact of microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by wireless communication devices on neurocognitive functions of adolescents is controversial. In a previous analysis, we found changes in figural memory scores associated with a higher cumulative RF-EMF brain dose in ad...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Foerster M,Thielens A,Joseph W,Eeftens M,Röösli M

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effect of processing on polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) levels, milk from four dairy herds containing less than 0.3 ppm (fat basis) of physiologically incorporated PBBs was presented individually into cream, skim milk, butter, and stirred curd cheese. Pasteurized and freeze-dried whole milk, skim milk, and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zabik ME,Johnson TM,Smith S

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 8000 children 0 to 14 years of age are diagnosed annually with cancer in the United States. Leukemia and brain tumors are the most common childhood malignancies, accounting for 30 and 20% of newly diagnosed cases, respectively. From 1975 to 1978 to 1987 to 1990, cancer among white children increased sligh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zahm SH,Devesa SS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the statistical properties of a simple two-stage model of carcinogenesis are explored. The implications of additive treatment effects versus independent treatment effects on the shape of the dose-response curve are considered. Response that is low-dose linear results in the cases where the mutation rates are a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Portier CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we summarize the results of a series of studies that measured the relative bioavailability (RBA) of lead in a variety of soil and soil-like test materials. Reference material (Pb acetate) or Pb-contaminated soils were administered orally to juvenile swine twice a day for 15 days. Blood samples were col...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Casteel SW,Weis CP,Henningsen GM,Brattin WJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most serious consequences of cancer therapy is the development of a second cancer, especially leukemia. Several distinct subsets of therapy-related leukemia can now be distinguished. Classic therapy-related myeloid leukemia typically occurs 5 to 7 years after exposure to alkylating agents and/or irradiation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Larson RA,LeBeau MM,Vardiman JW,Rowley JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00