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From:Journal of the American Statistical Association (Vol. 99, Issue 466) Peer-ReviewedCitation Only
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 109, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGiven an elevated prevalence of respiratory disease and density of pollution sources, residents of Roxbury, Massachusetts, have been interested in better understanding their exposures to air pollution. To determine...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Carmen P. Wong 1,2, Anna Hsu 1,2, Alex Buchanan 1, Zoraya Palomera-Sanchez 1,2, Laura M. Beaver 1,2, E. Andres Houseman 1, David E. Williams 2,3, Roderick H. Dashwood 2,3, Emily Ho 1,2,4,* Introduction...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn established exposure-response relationship exists between water arsenic levels and skin lesions. Results of previous studies with limited historical exposure data, and laboratory animal studies suggest that diet may...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 108, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAlthough ambient particulate matter has been associated with a range of health outcomes, the health risks for individuals depend in part on their daily activities. Information about particle mass concentrations and size...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 121, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground: There is increasing epidemiologic evidence that arsenic exposure in utero, even at low levels found throughout much of the world, is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes and may contribute to...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 123, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Arsenic is an immunotoxicant. Clinical reports observe the reactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV) in people who have recovered from arsenic poisoning and in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 115, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: In this study we compared cancer risks from organic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) based on total personal exposure summed across different microenvironments and exposure pathways. METHODS: We developed...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 124, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Arsenic is one of the most commonly encountered environmental toxicants, and research from model systems has suggested that one mode of its toxic activity may be through alterations in DNA methylation. In...
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From:Journal of the American Statistical Association (Vol. 101, Issue 476) Peer-ReviewedCitation Only
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedApproximately 500,000 individuals diagnosed with bladder cancer in the U.S. require routine cystoscopic follow-up to monitor for disease recurrences or progression, resulting in over $2 billion in annual expenditures....
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From:Journal of Environmental and Public HealthPeer-ReviewedBackground. Animal toxicity tests and epidemiological studies suggest that exposure to PBDEs can alter attention behavior, yet few studies have examined their association with diagnosis of attention deficit...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground In previous studies using candidate gene approaches, low sperm count (oligospermia) has been associated with altered sperm mRNA content and DNA methylation in both imprinted and non-imprinted genes. We...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Solid tumors, including head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC), arise as a result of genetic and epigenetic alterations in a sustained stress environment. Little work has been done that...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Millions of people in Bangladesh are at risk of chronic arsenic toxicity from drinking contaminated groundwater, but little is known about diet as an additional source of As exposure. METHODS: We employed...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 123, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Prenatal mercury (Hg) exposure is associated with adverse child neurobehavioral outcomes. Because Hg can interfere with placental functioning and cross the placenta to target the fetal brain, prenatal Hg...