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  1. Phthalates, commonly used to soften plastic goods, are known PPAR-agonists affecting lipid metabolism and adipocytes in the experimental setting. We evaluated if circulating concentrations of phthalates were r...

    Authors: P Monica Lind, Vendela Roos, Monika Rönn, Lars Johansson, Håkan Ahlström, Joel Kullberg and Lars Lind
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:21
  2. Exposure to endocrine active compounds, including bisphenol A (BPA), remains poorly characterized in developing countries despite the fact that behavioral practices related to westernization have the potential...

    Authors: Muna S Nahar, Amr S Soliman, Justin A Colacino, Antonia M Calafat, Kristen Battige, Ahmed Hablas, Ibrahim A Seifeldin, Dana C Dolinoy and Laura S Rozek
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:20
  3. The influence of temperature on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has not been investigated as extensively as the effects of broader outcomes of morbidity and mortality. Sixteen studies reported inconsistent r...

    Authors: Janine Wichmann, Matthias Ketzel, Thomas Ellermann and Steffen Loft
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:19
  4. Although recent research evidence suggests an association between household air pollution from solid fuel use, such as coal or biomass, and cardiovascular events such as hypertension, little epidemiologic data...

    Authors: Mi-Sun Lee, Jing-qing Hang, Feng-ying Zhang, He-lian Dai, Li Su and David C Christiani
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:18
  5. The purpose of the present study was to investigate activation of inflammatory markers in human macrophages derived from the U937 cell line after exposure to particulate matter (PM) collected on dairy farms in...

    Authors: Christoph F A Vogel, Johnny Garcia, Dalei Wu, Diane C Mitchell, Yanhong Zhang, Norman Y Kado, Patrick Wong, Danitza Alvizar Trujillo, Anna Lollies, Deborah Bennet, Marc B Schenker and Frank M Mitloehner
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:17
  6. High temperature and humidity conditions are associated with short-term elevations in the mortality rate in many United States cities. Previous research has quantified this relationship in an aggregate manner ...

    Authors: David M Hondula, Robert E Davis, Matthew J Leisten, Michael V Saha, Lindsay M Veazey and Carleigh R Wegner
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:16
  7. Studies on the associations between smoking and allergic diseases have mostly focused on asthma. Epidemiological studies in adults on the effects of smoking on allergic diseases other than asthma, such as ecze...

    Authors: Keiko Tanaka, Yoshihiro Miyake and Masashi Arakawa
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:15
  8. Surveys are a common way to measure annoyance due to road traffic noise, but the method has some draw-backs. Survey context, question wording and answer alternatives could affect participation and answers and ...

    Authors: Theo Bodin, Jonas Björk, Evy Öhrström, Jonas Ardö and Maria Albin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:14
  9. Exposure to air pollutants is suggested to adversely affect fetal growth, but the evidence remains inconsistent in relation to specific outcomes and exposure windows.

    Authors: Mark S Pearce, Svetlana V Glinianaia, Rakesh Ghosh, Judith Rankin, Steven Rushton, Martin Charlton, Louise Parker and Tanja Pless-Mulloli
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:13
  10. Bisphenol A (BPA) and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) are suspected endocrine disrupting compounds known to be ubiquitous in people's bodies. Population disparities in exposure to these chemicals have not bee...

    Authors: Jessica W Nelson, Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Elizabeth E Hatch and Thomas F Webster
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:10
  11. Previous studies suggest that pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of air pollution. A prospective cohort study in pregnant women and their children enables identifica...

    Authors: Edith H Van den Hooven, Frank H Pierik, Sjoerd W Van Ratingen, Peter YJ Zandveld, Ernst W Meijer, Albert Hofman, Henk ME Miedema, Vincent WV Jaddoe and Yvonne De Kluizenaar
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:9
  12. The prevalence of asthma in industrialized countries has been increasing dramatically and asthma is now the most common chronic disease of children in the United States. The rapidity of the increase strongly s...

    Authors: Yoichi Nakajima, Randall M Goldblum and Terumi Midoro-Horiuti
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:8
  13. In many areas of Bangladesh, it has been more than six years since a national campaign to test tubewells for arsenic (As) was conducted. Many households therefore draw their water for drinking and cooking from...

    Authors: Christine Marie George, Joseph H Graziano, Jacob L Mey and Alexander van Geen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:7
  14. Nitrate is a widespread contaminant of drinking water supplies, especially in agricultural areas. Nitrate intake from drinking water and dietary sources can interfere with the uptake of iodide by the thyroid, ...

    Authors: Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Sonya L Heltshe, John R Nuckols, Mona M Sabra, Alan R Shuldiner, Braxton D Mitchell, Matt Airola, Theodore R Holford, Yawei Zhang and Mary H Ward
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:6
  15. Although ozone-depleting methyl bromide was destined for phase-out by 2005, it is still widely applied as a consequence of various critical-use-exemptions and mandatory international regulations aiming to rest...

    Authors: Lygia T Budnik, Stefan Kloth, Marcial Velasco-Garrido and Xaver Baur
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:5
  16. Water and sanitation access are known to be related to newborn, child, and maternal health. Our study attempts to quantify these relationships globally using country-level data: How much does improving access ...

    Authors: June J Cheng, Corinne J Schuster-Wallace, Susan Watt, Bruce K Newbold and Andrew Mente
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:4
  17. From January 30-February 6, 2011, New South Wales was affected by an exceptional heat wave, which broke numerous records. Near real-time Emergency Department (ED) and ambulance surveillance allowed rapid detec...

    Authors: Andrea Schaffer, David Muscatello, Richard Broome, Stephen Corbett and Wayne Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:3
  18. While many studies of adults with solvent exposure have shown increased risks of anxiety and depressive disorders, there is little information on the impact of prenatal and early childhood exposure on the subs...

    Authors: Ann Aschengrau, Janice M Weinberg, Patricia A Janulewicz, Megan E Romano, Lisa G Gallagher, Michael R Winter, Brett R Martin, Veronica M Vieira, Thomas F Webster, Roberta F White and David M Ozonoff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:2

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  19. Bangladesh has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world concerning the adverse effects of climate change (CC). However, little is known about the perception of CC from the community...

    Authors: Md Aminul Haque, Shelby Suzanne Yamamoto, Ahmad Azam Malik and Rainer Sauerborn
    Citation: Environmental Health 2012 11:1
  20. During the past three decades in Bangladesh, millions of tubewells have been installed to reduce the prevalence of diarrheal disease. This study evaluates the impacts of tubewell access and tubewell depth on c...

    Authors: Jianyong Wu, Mohammad Yunus, Peter Kim Streatfield, Alexander van Geen, Veronica Escamilla, Yasuyuki Akita, Marc Serre and Michael Emch
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:109
  21. Particulate Matter (PM) exposure is critical in Beijing due to high population density and rapid increase in vehicular traffic. PM effects on blood pressure (BP) have been investigated as a mechanism mediating...

    Authors: Andrea Baccarelli, Francesco Barretta, Chang Dou, Xiao Zhang, John P McCracken, Anaité Díaz, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Joel Schwartz, Sheng Wang and Lifang Hou
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:108
  22. In recent years there has been a major change on the part of funders, particularly in North America, so that data sharing is now considered to be the norm rather than the exception. We believe that data sharin...

    Authors: Neil Pearce and Allan H Smith
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:107
  23. Case-control studies on adults point to an increased risk of brain tumours (glioma and acoustic neuroma) associated with the long-term use of mobile phones. Recently, the first study on mobile phone use and th...

    Authors: Fredrik Söderqvist, Michael Carlberg, Kjell Hansson Mild and Lennart Hardell
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:106
  24. Cadmium is a widespread environmental pollutant with adverse effects on kidneys and bone, but with insufficiently elucidated public health consequences such as risk of end-stage renal diseases, fractures and c...

    Authors: Bettina Julin, Marie Vahter, Billy Amzal, Alicja Wolk, Marika Berglund and Agneta Ã…kesson
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:105
  25. Exposure to cadmium has been associated with osteoporosis and fracture risk in women and elderly, but studies in children are lacking. In the present study we investigate the association between markers of bon...

    Authors: Muhammad Sughis, Joris Penders, Vincent Haufroid, Benoit Nemery and Tim S Nawrot
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:104
  26. Many studies of adults with acute and chronic solvent exposure have shown adverse effects on cognition, behavior and mood. No prior study has investigated the long-term impact of prenatal and early childhood e...

    Authors: Ann Aschengrau, Janice M Weinberg, Patricia A Janulewicz, Megan E Romano, Lisa G Gallagher, Michael R Winter, Brett R Martin, Veronica M Vieira, Thomas F Webster, Roberta F White and David M Ozonoff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:102
  27. Air pollution epidemiological studies are increasingly using global positioning system (GPS) to collect time-location data because they offer continuous tracking, high temporal resolution, and minimum reportin...

    Authors: Jun Wu, Chengsheng Jiang, Douglas Houston, Dean Baker and Ralph Delfino
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:101
  28. Androgens are crucial for normal testicular descent. Studies show that some pesticides have estrogenic or antiandrogenic effects, and that female workers exposed to pesticides have increased risk of having a b...

    Authors: Pernille Gabel, Morten Søndergaard Jensen, Helle Raun Andersen, Jesper Baelum, Ane Marie Thulstrup, Jens Peter Bonde and Gunnar Toft
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:100
  29. The authors recently undertook a study for the World Health Organization estimating the European burden of injuries that can be attributed to remediable structural hazards in the home. Such estimates are essen...

    Authors: Michael D Keall, David Ormandy and Michael G Baker
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:98
  30. Given mounting evidence for adverse effects from excess manganese exposure, it is critical to understand host factors, such as genetics, that affect manganese metabolism.

    Authors: Birgit Claus Henn, Jonghan Kim, Marianne Wessling-Resnick, Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Innocent Jayawardene, Adrienne S Ettinger, Mauricio Hernández-Avila, Joel Schwartz, David C Christiani, Howard Hu and Robert O Wright
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:97
  31. While environmental research addresses scientific questions of possible societal relevance, it is unclear to what degree research focuses on environmental chemicals in need of documentation for risk assessment...

    Authors: Philippe Grandjean, Mette L Eriksen, Ole Ellegaard and Johan A Wallin
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:96
  32. The amount of exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) at work is mainly determined by an individual's occupation and may differ from exposure at home. It is, however, unknown how different occupational groups...

    Authors: Diana van Dongen, Tjabe Smid and Daniëlle RM Timmermans
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:95
  33. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a sealant and flux of plastic materials and has been determined to be an endocrine-disrupting chemical. Prenatal exposure to BPA can lead to substantial adverse effects on fetal growth and...

    Authors: Wei-Chun Chou, Jyh-Larng Chen, Chung-Fen Lin, Yi-Chun Chen, Feng-Cheng Shih and Chun-Yu Chuang
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:94
  34. Ambient air pollution and malnutrition, particularly anemia, are risk factors for pneumonia, a leading cause of death in children under five. We simultaneously assessed these risk factors in Quito, Ecuador.

    Authors: Aaron M Harris, Fernando Sempértegui, Bertha Estrella, Ximena Narváez, Juan Egas, Mark Woodin, John L Durant, Elena N Naumova and Jeffrey K Griffiths
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:93
  35. Epidemiological studies suggest that long-term exposure to transport noise increases the risk for cardiovascular disorders. The effect of transport noise on blood pressure and hypertension is uncertain.

    Authors: Mette Sørensen, Martin Hvidberg, Barbara Hoffmann, Zorana J Andersen, Rikke B Nordsborg, Kenneth G Lillelund, Jørgen Jakobsen, Anne Tjønneland, Kim Overvad and Ole Raaschou-Nielsen
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:92
  36. An association between traffic air pollution and respiratory symptoms among children has been reported. However, the effects of traffic air pollution on asthma and wheeze have been very sparsely studied in are...

    Authors: Martin Andersson, Lars Modig, Linnea Hedman, Bertil Forsberg and Eva Rönmark
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:91
  37. Numerous studies have associated air pollutant exposures with adverse birth outcomes, but there is still relatively little information to attribute effects to specific emission sources or air toxics. We used t...

    Authors: Michelle Wilhelm, Jo Kay Ghosh, Jason Su, Myles Cockburn, Michael Jerrett and Beate Ritz
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:89
  38. Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer for women in the western world. From very few cases an extraordinary increase in BC was observed in the Inuit population of Greenland and Canada although still lowe...

    Authors: Eva C Bonefeld-Jorgensen, Manhai Long, Rossana Bossi, Pierre Ayotte, Gert Asmund, Tanja Krüger, Mandana Ghisari, Gert Mulvad, Peder Kern, Peter Nzulumiki and Eric Dewailly
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:88
  39. Case-crossover studies used to investigate associations between an environmental exposure and an acute health response, such as stroke, will often use the day an individual presents to an emergency department ...

    Authors: Julie YM Johnson, Paul J Villeneuve, Dion Pasichnyk and Brian H Rowe
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:87
  40. We hypothesized that in Flanders (Belgium), the prevalence of at-risk genotypes for genotoxic effects decreases with age due to morbidity and mortality resulting from chronic diseases. Rather than polymorphism...

    Authors: Hans B Ketelslegers, Roger WL Godschalk, Ralph WH Gottschalk, Ad M Knaapen, Gudrun Koppen, Greet Schoeters, Willy F Baeyens, Vera Nelen, Joep PM Geraedts, Joost HM van Delft, Jos CS Kleinjans and Nicolas A van Larebeke
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:85
  41. Hispanic workers have higher rates of injury and death on construction worksites than workers of other ethnicities. Language barriers and cultural differences have been hypothesized as reasons behind the dispa...

    Authors: Cora Roelofs, Linda Sprague-Martinez, Maria Brunette and Lenore Azaroff
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:84
  42. Previous studies have demonstrated that alterations in certain circulating biomarkers may be correlated with Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP). This study investigated the relationship between changes of seru...

    Authors: Jimin Zou, Xianming du Prel Carroll, Xianhong Liang, Dongmei Wang, Chao Li, Baojun Yuan and Sandra Leeper-Woodford
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:83
  43. Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) is associated with increased risk of respiratory illness, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Prior to smoking bans on airlines in the late 1980s, flight attendants were exposed ...

    Authors: Alexis L Beatty, Thaddeus J Haight and Rita F Redberg
    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10:81

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