abstract：:In an interdisciplinary approach the exposure to lead and cadmium of the population living in the vicinity of a Bulgarian non-ferrous metallurgical plant was studied to determine the routes of exposure. Two exposed villages situated 4 and 6 km SW and W, respectively,--in the plume of the plant's emissions--and a villa...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Fischer AB,Georgieva R,Nikolova V,Halkova J,Bainova A,Hristeva V,Penkov D,Alandjiisk D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic solvents utilized in various industrial processes may be associated with hepatotoxicity. The hepatotoxicity of some of the solvents was recognized as early as 1887, 1889 and 1904. Factors contributing to the hepatotoxicity of solvents include 1) species differences, 2) liver blood flow, 3) protein binding, 4) ...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Brautbar N,Williams J 2nd

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no publications on the frequency of environmental agents causing diseases in children presented at centers of environmental medicine. The aim of this study was to perform a statistical analysis of the data of children who visited the outpatient Unit of Environmental Medicine (UEM) at the University Hospital ...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Wiesmüller GA,Weishoff-Houben M,Brölsch O,Dott W,Schulze-Röbbecke R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the decrease of lead intake via inhalation route, the oral route, particularly from drinking water in cities with lead installations, gains relative importance. In two surveys a total of 288 objects were investigated and 1768 samples were analysed. The first series with 51 objects using a field experimental app...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Haider T,Haider M,Wruss W,Sommer R,Kundi M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated frequency of wheezing was found in school children in a rural area of Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany (Duhme and Keil, Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany 1997). In this study the prevalence of wheezing was reinvestigated by including main influencing factors....

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Hoelzer J,Stiller-Winkler R,Lemm F,Witzke N,Ewers U,Idel H,Wilhelm M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological evidence that ambient exposure, including particulate matter (PM) is related to adverse health outcomes continues to mount. Inflammation and disease of the upper respiratory tract are commonly suggested as effects of ambient exposure. Therefore we studied both ambient exposure and nasal effects in ...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Polat D,Eberwein G,Becker A,Weishaupt C,Schins RP,Ranft U,Borm PJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk assessments are important components of the decision making process. At hazardous waste sites, they are used as tools to determine appropriate cleanup levels. Therefore, it is critical that the best up-to-date methods, models, and exposure data are available to the exposure and risk assessor to realistically esti...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Moya J,Phillips L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) list arsenic as a major concern for Superfund sites and the environment at large. Arsenic is clearly linked to skin, bladder, and lung cance...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Karagas MR,Stukel TA,Tosteson TD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the study demonstrate that the weak estrogenic action of bisphenol A (a daily subcutaneous dose of 200 mg/kg on 4 consecutive days, administered before or after decidual induction that occurs on day 4 of pseudopregnancy) on deciduoma growth in pseudopregnant Sprague-Dawley rats, was functionally associa...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Spencer F,Chi L,Zhu MX,Nixon E,Lemelle C

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study examined the association between blood lead levels and neuropsychological and behavioural problems of 533 schoolgirls (6-12 years of age) who attended public schools in Riyadh, Capital of Saudi Arabia. Regression models were used to determine the best predictors of Beery VMI Saudi-based stan...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： al-Saleh I,Nester M,DeVol E,Shinwari N,Munchari L,al-Shahria S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifactorial risk factors are responsible for many diseases. They can be broadly categorized as environmental, genetic and life style factors. Much attention has been focused on the first two categories, e.g. the identification of environmental toxicants/carcinogens and the elucidation of genetic susceptibility to d...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Au WW

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenergic and cholinergic transmitters of the autonomic nervous system have important roles in the mutual interrelationships between the brain and the immune system. Besides expressing functional adrenergic and cholinergic receptors, lymphocytes and other immune cells were found to synthesize and release catecholamin...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Schauenstein K,Rinner I,Felsner P,Stevenson R,Haas H,Liebmann P

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January and October 1994, a study of the prevalence, intensity and clinical manifestations of onchocerciasis in nine communities of Toro local government area of Bauchi State, Nigeria was undertaken using the skin-snip method. Of the 1117 inhabitants examined, 188 (16.8%) were positive for microfilariae of Onc...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Anosike JC,Celestine,Onwuliri OE,Onwuliri VA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-related infections constitute an important health impact world-wide. A set of tools serving for Microbial Risk Assessment (MRA) of waterborne diseases should comprise the entire drinking-water management system and take into account the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) concept which provides sp...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Kistemann T,Herbst S,Dangendorf F,Exner M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic evidence indicates that respiratory disease in infancy and childhood has respiratory health consequences in later life. Pulmonary function is considered a good index of early effects. This study assessed the relationship of pulmonary function in preschool children in Leipzig, Germany, and exposure to hig...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Fritz GJ,Herbarth O

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence of Legionella pneumophila strain Monza 3 and Staphylococcus aureus strain Smith diffuse was investigated after sequential cultures on nutrient media. L. pneumophila lost its ability to multiply within Acanthamoeba polyphaga after 50 passages on Legionella selective agar, while S. aureus maintained its pathog...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Nagl M,Starlinger R,Tiefenbrunner F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a weak point of environmental medicine that health disturbances, e.g. functional affections of the upper respiratory tract, cannot be objectively judged by physicians resp. researchers. In this study, the validity of acoustic rhinometry, a method giving information on cross-sectional areas of the upper airways b...

journal_title：International journal of hygiene and environmental health

authors： Wiesmüller GA,Steup A,Ranft U,Bachert C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00