Are current or future mesothelioma epidemics in Hong Kong the tragic legacy of uncontrolled use of asbestos in the past?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Findings from national surveys suggest that everyone in the United States is exposed to perchlorate. At high doses, perchlorate, thiocyanate, and nitrate inhibit iodide uptake into the thyroid and decrease thyroid hormone production. Small changes in thyroid hormones during pregnancy, including changes withi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Steinmaus C,Pearl M,Kharrazi M,Blount BC,Miller MD,Pearce EN,Valentin-Blasini L,DeLorenze G,Hoofnagle AN,Liaw J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional limitations are a major cause for needing care and institutionalization among older adults. Exposure to air pollution has been suggested to be associated with increased functional limitations in older people. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to assess the association between air pollution and physical...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： de Zwart F,Brunekreef B,Timmermans E,Deeg D,Gehring U

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil ingestion estimates play an important role in risk assessment of contaminated sites, and estimates of soil ingestion in children are of special interest. Current estimates of soil ingestion are trace-element specific and vary widely among elements. Although expressed as daily estimates, the actual estimates have ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stanek EJ 3rd,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were used to study the general activity and the isoenzyme spectrum of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) during single-instance and long-term introduction of polychlorocamphene. Total lactate dehydrogenase activity decreases in the liver during the single-instance introduction of half the LD50 (120 mg/kg). The isoenzyme...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuz'minskaya UA,Alekhina SM

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The upward trend in industrial nations in the incidence of male genitourinary (GU) conditions may be attributed to increased exposure to endocrine disruptors. Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a brominated flame retardant, is one such suspected endocrine disruptor. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship be...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Small CM,DeCaro JJ,Terrell ML,Dominguez C,Cameron LL,Wirth J,Marcus M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the epidemiologic studies of the association of ischemic heart disease risk and environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure from a spouse who smokes. Seventeen studies (nine cohort, eight case-control) comprising more than 485,000 lifelong nonsmokers and 7,345 coronary heart disease (CHD) events we...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thun M,Henley J,Apicella L

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The World Health Organization is the agency responsible for reporting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicator "percentage of population using solid fuels." In this article, we present the results of a comprehensive assessment of solid fuel use, conducted in 2005, and discuss the implications of our fi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rehfuess E,Mehta S,Prüss-Ustün A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium is a commonly occurring toxic food contaminant, but health consequences of early-life exposure are poorly understood. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the associations between cadmium exposure and neurobehavioral development in preschool children. METHODS:In our population-based mother-child cohort study in...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kippler M,Tofail F,Hamadani JD,Gardner RM,Grantham-McGregor SM,Bottai M,Vahter M

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The normal mucociliary epithelium of the respiratory tract in chronic cigarette smokers often is replaced focally by a metaplastic squamous epithelium. Because asbestos workers who smoke have a substantially greater risk of bronchogenic carcinoma than nonsmokers, we hypothesized that interaction of asbestos with squam...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Woodworth CD,Mossman BT,Craighead JE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traffic noise has been associated with cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. Potential modes of action are through stress and sleep disturbance, which may lead to endocrine dysregulation and overweight. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to investigate the relationship between residential traffic and railway noise and a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Christensen JS,Raaschou-Nielsen O,Tjønneland A,Overvad K,Nordsborg RB,Ketzel M,Sørensen TIa,Sørensen M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical developments in the 21st century provide an unprecedented opportunity to gain a dynamic systems-level and human-specific understanding of the causes and pathophysiologies of disease. This understanding is a vital need, in view of continuing failures in health research, drug discovery, and clinical translati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Langley G,Austin CP,Balapure AK,Birnbaum LS,Bucher JR,Fentem J,Fitzpatrick SC,Fowle JR 3rd,Kavlock RJ,Kitano H,Lidbury BA,Muotri AR,Peng SQ,Sakharov D,Seidle T,Trez T,Tonevitsky A,van de Stolpe A,Whelan M,Willett C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our desire to understand the potential adverse human health effects of environmental chemical exposure has coincided with an increased understanding of the immune system and an appreciation of its complex regulatory network. This has spawned a broad interest in the area of immunotoxicology within the scientific commun...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Luster MI,Rosenthal GJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzene has been known to be a bone marrow poison for almost a century. However, it was not until the last decade that benzene's carcinogenic potential was demonstrated by epidemiologic studies. The proposed regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to lower exposure levels of benzene in t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Infante PF,White MC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems of quantitating chrysotile in water by fiber count techniques are reviewed briefly and the use of mass quantitation is suggested as a preferable measure. Chrysotile fiber has been found in almost every sample of natural water examined, but generally transmission electron miscroscopy (TEM) is required beca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Speil S

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In animals, some phthalates impair male reproductive development and function. Epidemiological studies have reported inconsistent evidence of associations between phthalates and markers of human testicular function. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to provide estimates of the effects of phthalate exposure on reproductiv...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Joensen UN,Frederiksen H,Blomberg Jensen M,Lauritsen MP,Olesen IA,Lassen TH,Andersson AM,Jørgensen N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Air pollution exposure increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and is a major global public health concern. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the benefits of reducing personal exposure to urban air pollution in patients with coronary heart disease. METHODS:In an open randomized crossover trial, 98 patien...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Langrish JP,Li X,Wang S,Lee MM,Barnes GD,Miller MR,Cassee FR,Boon NA,Donaldson K,Li J,Li L,Mills NL,Newby DE,Jiang L

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tremor is one of the most common neurological signs, yet its etiology is poorly understood. Case-control studies suggest an association between blood lead and essential tremor, and that this association is modified by polymorphisms in the δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydrogenase (ALAD) gene. OBJECTIVE:We aimed t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ji JS,Power MC,Sparrow D,Spiro A 3rd,Hu H,Louis ED,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of questionnaires to predict children's exposure to pesticides was examined as part of the Minnesota Children's Pesticide Exposure Study (MNCPES). The MNCPES focused on a probability sample of 102 children between the ages of 3 and 13 years living in either urban (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) or nonurban ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sexton K,Adgate JL,Eberly LE,Clayton CA,Whitmore RW,Pellizzari ED,Lioy PJ,Quackenboss JJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies demonstrate that infection, specifically pneumonia, contributes substantially to the increased morbidity and mortality among elderly individuals following exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM). This laboratory has previously demonstrated that a single inhalation exposure of Streptococcus pn...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zelikoff JT,Schermerhorn KR,Fang K,Cohen MD,Schlesinger RB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of approximately 650 beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) inhabits a short segment of the St. Lawrence estuary (SLE). Over 17 years (1983-1999), we have examined 129 (or 49%) of 263 SLE beluga carcasses reported stranded. The major primary causes of death were respiratory and gastrointestinal infections with me...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Martineau D,Lemberger K,Dallaire A,Labelle P,Lipscomb TP,Michel P,Mikaelian I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are synthetic compounds that are widely used in industry and are often detectable in humans. In pregnant rats and their pups, PFASs can interfere with thyroid hormone homeostasis. In humans, maternal thyroid hormones supply the fetus throughout pregnancy, and thyroid hormone...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wang Y,Rogan WJ,Chen PC,Lien GW,Chen HY,Tseng YC,Longnecker MP,Wang SL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a progressive degenerative brain disease of unknown etiology, characterized by the development of large numbers of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in the brain. Aluminum salts may be used experimentally to produce lesions which are similar, but not identical, to the neurofibrillary ta...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Perl DP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed and applied a new measurement methodology to investigate dermal absorption of chloroform while bathing. Ten subjects bathed in chlorinated water while breathing pure air through a face mask. Their exhaled breath was delivered to a glow discharge source/ion trap mass spectrometer for continuous real-t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gordon SM,Wallace LA,Callahan PJ,Kenny DV,Brinkman MC

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) have carried out a number of laboratory animal carcinogenicity studies and presented the results of these experiments in a series of Technical Reports. This paper tabulates the results of the 327 NCI/NTP studies carried out to date on 308 di...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Haseman JK,Huff JE,Zeiger E,McConnell EE

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious problems emerge when evaluating evidence on lead neurotoxicity in children. The extent of these problems and ways to control them were explored in a study of 1291 children from the first class in the schools of Aarhus municipality, Denmark. The lead retention in circumpulpal dentin in shed deciduous teeth was ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Grandjean P,Lyngbye T,Hansen ON

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl parathion (MP), an organophosphate pesticide licensed only for agricultural uses, was sprayed illegally for pest control in Mississippi and Ohio residences. To evaluate the association between MP exposure and neurobehavioral development, we assessed children 6 years or younger at the time of the spraying and lo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ruckart PZ,Kakolewski K,Bove FJ,Kaye WE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlordane is a polychlorinated hydrocarbon that causes liver enlargement and induces mixed-function oxidases similar to those induced by phenobarbitone in the mouse. We have assessed the hepatocarcinogenicity (after 2 years) and the time course (over 6 months) of liver and thyroid cell proliferation in C57Bl/10J mice ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Barrass N,Stewart M,Warburton S,Aitchison J,Jackson D,Wadsworth P,Marsden A,Orton T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

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