Low-level lead exposure and elevations in blood pressure during pregnancy.

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and costs of pediatric disease in American children. We examined four categories of illness: lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and neurobehavioral disorders. To estimate the proportion of each attrib...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Landrigan PJ,Schechter CB,Lipton JM,Fahs MC,Schwartz J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few animal studies on the possible carcinogenic effect of magnetic fields have been published. They have been designed to reveal a possible tumor promotion obtained by applying continuous or pulsed alternating fields at flux densities varying between 0.5 microT and 30 mT on mice or rats initiated with different init...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holmberg B

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Bacterial meningitis causes a high burden of disease in the African meningitis belt, with regular seasonal hyperendemicity and sporadic short, but intense, localized epidemics during the late dry season occurring at a small spatial scale [i.e., below the district level, in individual health centers (HCs)]. I...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Woringer M,Martiny N,Porgho S,Bicaba BW,Bar-Hen A,Mueller JE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic effects of cadmium and other heavy metals have been well established, and many of these and other environmental pollutants are known to be embryotoxic or teratogenic. However, it has proven difficult to identify individual cells that respond to toxicants among the wide range of cell populations in an intact ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Blechinger SR,Warren JT Jr,Kuwada JY,Krone PH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) may contribute to premature mortality, but few studies to date have addressed this topic. OBJECTIVES:In this study we assessed the association between TRAP and mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. METHODS:We collected nitrogen dioxide samples over ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jerrett M,Finkelstein MM,Brook JR,Arain MA,Kanaroglou P,Stieb DM,Gilbert NL,Verma D,Finkelstein N,Chapman KR,Sears MR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With this research I tested the hypothesis that individual preferences for specific ecosystem components and restorative environments are significantly associated with quality of life (QOL). A total of 379 human subjects responded to a structured 18-item questionnaire on topophilia and to the 26-item World Health Orga...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ogunseitan OA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the cohort consisted of 18,135 distribution employees with potential exposure to gasoline for at least one year at land-based terminals (n = 9,026) or on marine vessels (n = 9,109) between 1946 and 1985. The primary objective of the study was to determine the relationship, if any, between exposure to ga...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wong O,Harris F,Smith TJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies estimating health effects of long-term air pollution exposure often use a two-stage approach: building exposure models to assign individual-level exposures, which are then used in regression analyses. This requires accurate exposure modeling and careful treatment of exposure measurement error. OBJEC...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bergen S,Sheppard L,Sampson PD,Kim SY,Richards M,Vedal S,Kaufman JD,Szpiro AA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern about apparent increases in the prevalence of hypospadias--a congenital male reproductive-tract abnormality--in the 1960s to 1980s and the possible connection to increasing exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals have underlined the importance of effective surveillance of hypospadias prevalence in the popu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dolk H,Vrijheid M,Scott JE,Addor MC,Botting B,de Vigan C,de Walle H,Garne E,Loane M,Pierini A,Garcia-Minaur S,Physick N,Tenconi R,Wiesel A,Calzolari E,Stone D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phthalate acid esters (PAEs), and, in particular, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and its monoester, monoethylhexyl phthalate (MEHP), can adversely affect rodent testes but only at high doses. Rat gonadal zinc levels can be decreased by the injection of DEHP, but not MEHP. The rat prostate gland seems to be part...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomas JA,Curto KA,Thomas MJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg), a worldwide contaminant found in fish and seafood, has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. OBJECTIVE:We examined 42 Faroese whaling men (30-70 years of age) to assess possible adverse effects within a wide range of MeHg exposures from consumption of pilot whal...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Choi AL,Weihe P,Budtz-Jørgensen E,Jørgensen PJ,Salonen JT,Tuomainen TP,Murata K,Nielsen HP,Petersen MS,Askham J,Grandjean P

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has marked a radical change in the business of sustainability, say environmental activists and industrialists alike. On the wane are "greenwashing" campaigns in which corporations promote dubious environmental accomplishments to draw attention away from environmentally damaging practices. On the rise a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fields S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface IR (infrared) modes of crystalline and fumed (amorphous) silica particles, calcined at temperatures up to 1095 degrees C, have been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The ability of these same particles to lyse cells has been measured by a hemolysis protocol. The untreated crystalline and amor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pandurangi RS,Seehra MS,Razzaboni BL,Bolsaitis P

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulates >170,000 public water systems to protect health, but not >13 million private wells. State and local government requirements for private well water testing are rare and inconsistent; the responsibility to ensure water safety remains with individual households....

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zheng Y,Flanagan SV

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous environmental endocrine disruptor targeting estrogen receptors (ERs), has been implicated in the promotion of breast cancer. Perinatal exposure of BPA could induce longitudinal alteration of DNA hydroxymethylation in imprinted loci of mouse blood cells. To date, no data has be...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Li Z,Lyu C,Ren Y,Wang H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five decades ago, lead toxicity in childhood was thought in nonlethal cases to be without residual effect. This misconception was corrected in 1943 by Randolph Byers, who began the modern era of lead neurotoxicology by asserting that lead not only killed cells, but interfered with the normal development of central ner...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Needleman HL

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the association between drinking-water disinfection by-products and preterm births using improved exposure assessment and more appropriate analysis methods than used in prior studies. METHODS:During 1999-2001, vital record data were obtained for a large, racially diverse population residing in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lewis C,Suffet IH,Hoggatt K,Ritz B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochlorines are persistent lipophilic compounds that accumulate in Inuit people living in circumpolar countries. Organochlorines accumulate as a result of the Inuits' large consumption of sea mammal fat; however, available data are limited to blood lipids, milk fat, and adipose tissue. We report results of organoc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dewailly E,Mulvad G,Pedersen HS,Ayotte P,Demers A,Weber JP,Hansen JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The National Environmental Policy Act and related state laws require many public agencies to analyze and disclose potentially significant environmental effects of agency actions, including effects on human health. In this paper we review the purpose and procedures of environmental impact assessment (EIA), ex...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bhatia R,Wernham A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cigarette smoke and high-level occupational asbestos exposure produces a synergistic increase in the incidence of lung cancer; however, smoking does not affect the incidence of mesothelioma. Here we present the results of tests of two theories that have been proposed to explain this phenomenon; name...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sekhon HS,Keeling B,Churg A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological markers of intermediate health outcomes sometimes provide a superior alternative to traditional measures of pollutant-related disease. Some opportunities and methodologic issues associated with using markers are discussed in the context of exposures to four complex mixtures: environmental tobacco smoke and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wilcosky TC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent increases have been reported in industrial countries for several sites of cancer. The causes of these increases remain unknown. Efforts should proceed to identify those occupational groups with increases in the same sites, as these may indicate relevant exposures. Two analyses were undertaken: trends in cancer ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Davis DL,Blair A,Hoel DG

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under a congressional mandate to revise its current standard for arsenic in drinking water. We present a risk assessment for cancers of the bladder, liver, and lung from exposure to arsenic in water, based on data from 42 villages in an arseniasis-endemic region of Taiwan. W...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Morales KH,Ryan L,Kuo TL,Wu MM,Chen CJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to investigate exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in a young urban population in a developing country, with focus on potentially highly exposed children working informally as scrap scavengers at a large municipal waste disposal site. We also set out to investigate whether hydroxyla...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Athanasiadou M,Cuadra SN,Marsh G,Bergman A,Jakobsson K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exceptional aging, defined as reaching age 85 years, shows geographic inequalities that may depend on local environmental conditions. Links between particulate pollution-a well-recognized environmental risk factor-and exceptional aging have not been investigated. OBJECTIVES:We conducted a nationwide analysi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baccarelli AA,Hales N,Burnett RT,Jerrett M,Mix C,Dockery DW,Pope CA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00