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Air Pollution and Temperature: a Systematic Review of Ubiquitous Environmental Exposures and Sudden Cardiac Death
Environmental exposures have been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality and acute coronary events, but their relationship with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and sudden cardiac deat...
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Open AccessCharacterizing temporal trends in populations exposed to aircraft noise around U.S. airports: 1995–2015
Aircraft noise is a key concern for communities surrounding airports, with increasing evidence for health effects and inequitable distributions of exposure. However, there have been limited national-scale asse...
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Correction to: Prenatal Diet as a Modifier of Environmental Risk Factors for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
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Prenatal Diet as a Modifier of Environmental Risk Factors for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
Environmental chemicals and toxins have been associated with increased risk of impaired neurodevelopment and specific conditions like autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Prenatal diet is an individually modifiable...
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Effects of particulate matter gamma radiation on oxidative stress biomarkers in COPD patients
Inhalation of particulate matter (PM) radioactivity is an important pathway of ionizing radiation exposure. We investigated the associations between short-term exposures to PM gamma radioactivity with oxidativ...
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Open AccessAssociation of social distancing and face mask use with risk of COVID-19
Given the continued burden of COVID-19 worldwide, there is a high unmet need for data on the effect of social distancing and face mask use to mitigate the risk of COVID-19. We examined the association of commu...
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Open AccessLow dose environmental radon exposure and breast tumor gene expression
The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radon and its decay-products as Group-1-human-carcinogens, and with the current knowledge they are linked specifically to lung cancer. Biokinetic mode...
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Authors’ response to letter to the editor by Zhiqiang Wu, Jiazhang Wu, and Zhibin Lan
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Correction: Plasma vitamin D, past chest illness, and risk of future chest illness in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI): a longitudinal observational study
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Correction: Clinical associations with telomere length in chronic spinal cord injury
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Plasma vitamin D, past chest illness, and risk of future chest illness in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI): a longitudinal observational study
Observational study.
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Clinical associations with telomere length in chronic spinal cord injury
Cross-sectional study
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Vitamin D, diet, and lifestyle in a chronic SCI population
Cross-sectional study.
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Spatial Analyses of Environmental Exposures and Breast Cancer: Natural Vegetation, Ambient Air Pollution and Outdoor Light at Night as Examples
In this chapter, several environmental exposures are highlighted that are relevant to breast cancer epidemiology such as natural vegetation/greenness, air pollutants, and outdoor light at night exposures. Each...
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Impacts of Air Pollution on Gynecologic Disease: Infertility, Menstrual Irregularity, Uterine Fibroids, and Endometriosis: a Systematic Review and Commentary
Air pollution is widely known to affect human cardiopulmonary health, but only recently has research begun to focus on understanding the association between ambient air pollution and reproductive health and gy...
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Aviation Noise and Cardiovascular Health in the United States: a Review of the Evidence and Recommendations for Research Direction
In the USA, there is mounting pressure on aviation operators and regulators to address concerns about community impacts of aircraft noise given increasing evidence of adverse health impacts, continuing communi...
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Ambient PM2.5 air pollution exposure and hepatocellular carcinoma incidence in the United States
To conduct the first epidemiologic study prospectively examining the association between particulate matter air pollution < 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) exposure and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk in the U.S.
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Open AccessEmerging trends in geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI): potential applications for environmental epidemiology
Geospatial artificial intelligence (geoAI) is an emerging scientific discipline that combines innovations in spatial science, artificial intelligence methods in machine learning (e.g., deep learning), data min...
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Open AccessLongitudinal associations of long-term exposure to ultrafine particles with blood pressure and systemic inflammation in Puerto Rican adults
Few longitudinal studies have examined the association between ultrafine particulate matter (UFP, particles < 0.1 μm aerodynamic diameter) exposure and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. We used data f...
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Open AccessExposure to hazardous air pollutants and risk of incident breast cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study II
Findings from a recent prospective cohort study in California suggested increased risk of breast cancer associated with higher exposure to certain carcinogenic and estrogen-disrupting hazardous air pollutants ...
