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Mouthing activity data for children age 3 to <6 years old and fraction of hand area mouthed for children age <6 years old in Taiwan
Non-dietary ingestion is an important exposure pathway for children owing to their frequent hand-to-mouth and object-to-mouth activities involving soil and dust contacts. We used videota** and the computer-b...
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Soil ingestion rates for children under 3 years old in Taiwan
Soil and dust ingestion rates by children are among the most critical exposure factors in determining risks to children from exposures to environmental contaminants in soil and dust. We believe this is the fir...
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The importance of the exposure metric in air pollution epidemiology studies: When does it matter, and why?
Exposure error in ambient air pollution epidemiologic studies may introduce bias and/or attenuation of the health risk estimate, reduce statistical significance, and lower statistical power. Alternative exposu...
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Mouthing activity data for children aged 7 to 35 months in Taiwan
Young children’s mouthing activities thought to be among the most important exposure pathways. Unfortunately, mouthing activity studies have only been conducted in a few countries. In the current study, we use...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluating Alternative Exposure Metrics Used for Multipollutant Air Quality and Human Health Studies
Epidemiologic studies of air pollution have traditionally relied upon surrogates of personal pollutant exposures, such as ambient concentration measurements from fixed-site pollutant monitors. This study evalu...
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Evaluation and application of alternative air pollution exposure metrics in air pollution epidemiology studies
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Refined ambient PM2.5 exposure surrogates and the risk of myocardial infarction
Using a case-crossover study design and conditional logistic regression, we compared the relative odds of transmural (full-wall) myocardial infarction (MI) calculated using exposure surrogates that account for...
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Development and evaluation of alternative approaches for exposure assessment of multiple air pollutants in Atlanta, Georgia
Measurements from central site (CS) monitors are often used as estimates of exposure in air pollution epidemiological studies. As these measurements are typically limited in their spatiotemporal resolution, tr...
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Spatiotemporally resolved air exchange rate as a modifier of acute air pollution-related morbidity in Atlanta
Epidemiological studies frequently use central site concentrations as surrogates of exposure to air pollutants. Variability in air pollutant infiltration due to differential air exchange rates (AERs) is potent...
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Associations between summertime ambient pollutants and respiratory morbidity in New York City: Comparison of results using ambient concentrations versus predicted exposures
Epidemiological analyses of air quality often estimate human exposure from ambient monitoring data, potentially leading to exposure misclassification and subsequent bias in estimated health risks. To investiga...
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Air pollution exposure prediction approaches used in air pollution epidemiology studies
Epidemiological studies of the health effects of outdoor air pollution have traditionally relied upon surrogates of personal exposures, most commonly ambient concentration measurements from central-site monito...
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Exposure prediction approaches used in air pollution epidemiology studies: Key findings and future recommendations
Many epidemiologic studies of the health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution use measurements from central-site monitors as their exposure estimate. However, measurements from central-site monitors ma...
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Application of alternative spatiotemporal metrics of ambient air pollution exposure in a time-series epidemiological study in Atlanta
Exposure error in studies of ambient air pollution and health that use city-wide measures of exposure may be substantial for pollutants that exhibit spatiotemporal variability. Alternative spatiotemporal metri...
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Influence of human activity patterns, particle composition, and residential air exchange rates on modeled distributions of PM2.5 exposure compared with central-site monitoring data
Central-site monitors do not account for factors such as outdoor-to-indoor transport and human activity patterns that influence personal exposures to ambient fine-particulate matter (PM2.5). We describe and compa...
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The use of improved exposure factors in the interpretation of fine particulate matter epidemiological results
Multi-city population-based epidemiological studies have consistently reported a significant association between ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and daily mortality. However, in these studi...
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Impact of NOx emissions reduction policy on hospitalizations for respiratory disease in New York State
To date, only a limited number of studies have examined the impact of ambient pollutant policy on respiratory morbidities. This accountability study examined the effect of a regional pollution control policy, ...
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Variability in the fraction of ambient fine particulate matter found indoors and observed heterogeneity in health effect estimates
Exposure to ambient (outdoor-generated) fine particulate matter (PM2.5) occurs predominantly indoors. The variable efficiency with which ambient PM2.5 penetrates and persists indoors is a source of exposure error...
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Air pollution and health: bridging the gap from sources to health outcomes: conference summary
“Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes,” an international specialty conference sponsored by the American Association for Aerosol Research, was held to address key uncertain...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development and Evaluation of Alternative Metrics of Ambient Air Pollution Exposure for Use in Epidemiologic Studies
Population-based epidemiologic studies of air pollution have traditionally relied upon imperfect surrogates of personal exposures, such as area-wide ambient air pollution levels based on readily available outd...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development and Evaluation of Land-Use Regression Models Using Modeled Air Quality Concentrations
Land-use regression (LUR) models have emerged as a preferred methodology for estimating individual exposure to ambient air pollution in epidemiologic studies in absence of subject-specific measurements. Althou...
