The effects of particulate matter sources on daily mortality: a case-crossover study of Barcelona, Spain.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are developmental toxicants, but the impact of both maternal and paternal exposures on offspring birth size is largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE:We examined associations between maternal and paternal serum concentrations of 63 POPs, comprising five major classes of pollutant...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Robledo CA,Yeung E,Mendola P,Sundaram R,Maisog J,Sweeney AM,Barr DB,Louis GM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High cadmium exposure is known to cause bone damage, but the association between low-level cadmium exposure and osteoporosis remains to be clarified. Using a population-based women's health survey in southern Sweden [Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) ] with no known historical cadmium contamination, we investiga...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Akesson A,Bjellerup P,Lundh T,Lidfeldt J,Nerbrand C,Samsioe G,Skerfving S,Vahter M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Love Canal is a rectangular 16-acre, 10-ft deep chemical waste landfill situated in a residential neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. This seriously contaminated site first came to public attention in 1978. No studies have examined mortality in the former residents of the Love Canal neighborhood (LC...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gensburg LJ,Pantea C,Fitzgerald E,Stark A,Hwang SA,Kim N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Industrial air pollution is a public health hazard. Previous evidence documented increased respiratory symptoms and hospitalizations in children who live near the factories in the largest chipboard manufacturing district in Italy (Viadana). OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the association of outdoor exposure to form...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Marcon A,Fracasso ME,Marchetti P,Doria D,Girardi P,Guarda L,Pesce G,Pironi V,Ricci P,de Marco R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte micronucleus assay was used to measure the average frequency of micronuclei in a population and thus assess genotoxic effects. Data from 174 persons give an average value of 16.4 +/- 7.3, and a slight age-dependence was observed. To detect combined environmental mutagen injuries the micronucleus assay w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bérces J,Otos M,Szirmai S,Crane-Uruena C,Köteles GJ

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：:Isolated rat and human hepatocytes in primary culture were shown to metabolize AAF to reactive intermediates which damaged hepatocyte DNA. A significant increase in unscheduled DNA synthesis was detectable by autoradiography in rat and human hepatocytes exposed to concentrations of AAF as low as 1 microM. When rat hep...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Strom SC,Jirtle RL,Michalopoulos G

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence indicates that air pollution contributes to cardiopulmonary mortality. There is ongoing debate regarding the size and shape of the pollution–mortality exposure–response relationship. There are also growing appeals for estimates of pollution–mortality relationships that use public data and are based ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pope CA 3rd,Lefler JS,Ezzati M,Higbee JD,Marshall JD,Kim SY,Bechle M,Gilliat KS,Vernon SE,Robinson AL,Burnett RT

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestos and silica are well-known fibrogenic dusts. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of the molecular and cellular events that lead to fibrosis as a consequence of asbestos or silica inhalation. Previous studies have shown that asbestos stimulates superoxide anion production in alveolar macrophages th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holian A,Kelley K,Hamilton RF Jr

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sertoli cell is the primary target for FSH action in the mammalian testis. These cells contain the majority of testicular plasma membrane receptors for this hormone. Receptor occupancy is directly correlated with a stimulation of adenylyl cyclase and a decrease in the activity of a cytoplasmic Ca++-sensitive cAMP ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tindall DJ,Tash JS,Means AR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy. Structure-activity studies have shown that a close derivative, propionitrile (ethyl cyanide), causes duodenal ulcer without markedly affecting the adrenal glands. Prolonging the two-carbon chain o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Szabo S,Reynolds ES

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minority populations face a wide variety of economic, institutional, and cultural barriers to health care. These barriers and low levels of education and income pose significant challenges for health professionals in developing cancer research and prevention-control strategies. It is suggested that specific segments o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ramirez AG,McAlister A,Gallion KJ,Villarreal R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater contamination is a serious problem that is growing in the United States, but its true extent is not known and it is difficult to determine because of the complexities of contaminants, their transformation, and fate in groundwater systems. It is also difficult to predict their movement in groundwater. Since...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Patrick R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that the pyrolysis products of amino acids and proteins in model systems are mutagenic. The mutagenic principles in the pyrolyzates of amino acids have been isolated and identified by Sugimura et al. We have isolated and identified amino-alpha-carbolines from pyrolyzed soybean globulin as mutagens...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yoshida D,Matsumoto T,Okamoto H,Mizusaki S,Kushi A,Fukuhara Y

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type II cell plays an important role in the response of the alveolar epithelium after lung injury through its synthesis and secretion of pulmonary surfactant, and by acting as the stem cell for the replacement of damaged type I epithelial cells. The nonciliated bronchiolar epithelial (Clara) cell is thought to pla...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Finkelstein JN,Johnston C,Barrett T,Oberdörster G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to potential threats to human health and fish populations, six states along the east coast of the United States initiated monitoring programs related to Pfiesteria-like organisms in 1998. These actions were taken in the wake of toxic outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida Steidinger & Burkholder in Maryland dur...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Magnien RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:comments on S. Patandin et al. : Dietary exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins from infancy until adulthood: a comparison between breast-feeding, toddler, and long-term exposure. Environ Health Perspect 107:45-51 (1999). ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： LaKind JS,Filser JG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striking similarities have been observed in a number of extrapulmonary responses of rodents to seemingly disparate ambient pollutants. These responses are often characterized by primary decreases in important indices of cardiac and thermoregulatory function, along with secondary decreases in associated parameters. For...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watkinson WP,Campen MJ,Nolan JP,Costa DL

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will briefly outline those elements which must be considered in assessing the effects of any given compound which might impinge on the actions of adrenocortical steroids. Considerations that ought to be taken into account include the following: the delivery to the affected cells of corticosteroids, the upta...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson EB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl eugenol is a naturally occurring material found in a variety of food sources, including spices, oils, and nutritionally important foods such as bananas and oranges. Given its natural occurrence, a broad cross-section of the population is likely exposed. The availability of biomonitoring and toxicology data offe...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Robison SH,Barr DB

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The industrial accident that occurred in the town of Seveso, Italy, in 1976 exposed a large population to substantial amounts of relatively pure 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Extensive monitoring of soil levels and measurements of a limited number of human blood samples allowed classification of the exposed pop...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bertazzi PA,Bernucci I,Brambilla G,Consonni D,Pesatori AC

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of blood lead (B-Pb) concentration to blood pressure was investigated in men aged 55 to 75 years living in the Rome area, who had no history of exposure to lead in the workplace and who participated between 1989 and 1990 in an epidemiologic survey for coronary heart disease (New Risk Factor Project). O...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Menditto A,Morisi G,Spagnolo A,Menotti A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylation of specific cytosine residues in DNA has been implicated in regulating gene expression and facilitating functional specialization of cellular phenotypes. Generally, the demethylation of certain CpG sites correlates with transcriptional activation of genes. 5-Azacytidine is an inhibitor of DNA methylati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Michalowsky LA,Jones PA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental heat exposure is a public health concern. The impacts of environmental heat on mortality and morbidity at the population scale are well documented, but little is known about specific exposures that individuals experience. OBJECTIVES:The first objective of this work was to catalyze discussion o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuras ER,Richardson MB,Calkins MM,Ebi KL,Hess JJ,Kintziger KW,Jagger MA,Middel A,Scott AA,Spector JT,Uejio CK,Vanos JK,Zaitchik BF,Gohlke JM,Hondula DM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater pollution has become a worrisome phenomenon, mainly for aquifers underlying industrialized areas. In order to evaluate the risk of pollution, a model of the aquifer is needed. Herewith, we describe a quasi-tridimensional model, which we applied to a multilayered aquifer where a phreatic aquifer was coupled...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ponzini G,Crosta G,Giudici M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2004, one of the largest aflatoxicosis outbreaks occurred in rural Kenya, resulting in 317 cases and 125 deaths. Aflatoxin-contaminated homegrown maize was the source of the outbreak, but the extent of regional contamination and status of maize in commercial markets (market maize) were unknown. We conducted a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lewis L,Onsongo M,Njapau H,Schurz-Rogers H,Luber G,Kieszak S,Nyamongo J,Backer L,Dahiye AM,Misore A,DeCock K,Rubin C,Kenya Aflatoxicosis Investigation Group.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have examined the effects of air pollution on mortality, data limitations have resulted in fewer studies of both particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 and < 10 mi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zanobetti A,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat is the primary weather-related cause of death in the United States. Increasing heat and humidity, at least partially related to anthropogenic climate change, suggest that a long-term increase in heat-related mortality could occur. We calculated the annual excess mortality on days when apparent temperatures--an in...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Davis RE,Knappenberger PC,Michaels PJ,Novicoff WM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ubiquitous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been shown to alter gene expression patterns and elevate micronuclei (MN) frequency, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key gene regulators that may be influenced by PAH exposures and mediate their effects on MN fr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Deng Q,Huang S,Zhang X,Zhang W,Feng J,Wang T,Hu D,Guan L,Li J,Dai X,Deng H,Zhang X,Wu T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the risk of hearing loss among workers exposed to both toluene and noise. We recruited 58 workers at an adhesive materials manufacturing plant who were exposured to both toluene and noise [78.6-87.1 A-weighted decibels; dB(A)], 58 workers exposed to noise only [83.5-90.1 dB(A)], and 58 ad...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chang SJ,Chen CJ,Lien CH,Sung FC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00