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Exposure to Source-Specific Particulate Matter and Health Effects: a Review of Epidemiological Studies
Purpose of ReviewEstimating the associations between health effects and source-specific particulate matter (PM) exposure is critical to understand...
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Study on the spatial nonlinear impact of haze pollution on residents’ health: a epidemiological perspective
Regional haze pollution is a serious atmospheric environmental problem in China, it seriously affects residents’ health. This paper uses ArcGIS...
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Spatiotemporal genome diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: a two-year global epidemiological study
Wastewater surveillance locally and globally is important for the investigation of the molecular epidemiological features of SARS-CoV-2 in the...
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Effects of Environmental Heavy Metal Interactions on Renal Impairment: Epidemiological Evidence from Rural Northeastern China
Chronic kidney disease, common in older individuals, causes a considerable disease burden worldwide. Although heavy metal exposure is associated with...
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The influence of socioeconomic and environmental determinants on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality from the spatial epidemiological perspective
Plenty of epidemiological approaches have been explored to detect the effects of environmental and socioeconomic factors on acute myocardial...
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Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods
BackgroundCritical knowledge of what we know about health and disease, risk factors, causation, prevention, and treatment, derives from epidemiology....
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PFAS Exposures and the Human Metabolome: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological Studies
Purpose of ReviewThere is a growing interest in understanding the health effects of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) through...
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Prediction of leptospirosis outbreaks by hydroclimatic covariates: a comparative study of statistical models
Leptospirosis, the infectious disease caused by a spirochete bacteria, is a major public health problem worldwide. In Argentina, some regions have...
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Traffic noise and adiposity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies
Traffic noise has attracted much attention as a significant and intractable public health threat. This study was designed as a systematical review to...
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Effects of mixed heavy metals on obstructive lung function: findings from epidemiological and toxicogenomic data
The molecular mechanisms and associations of mixed heavy metals (lead, mercury, and cadmium) on obstructive lung function (OLF) in males and females...
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Evaluating county-level lung cancer incidence from environmental radiation exposure, PM2.5, and other exposures with regression and machine learning models
Characterizing the interplay between exposures sha** the human exposome is vital for uncovering the etiology of complex diseases. For example,...
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An exposure to endocrine active persistent pollutants and endometriosis — a review of current epidemiological studies
Widespread exposure to persistent pollutants can disrupt the bodies’ natural endocrine functions and contribute to reproductive diseases like...
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Heat, heatwaves, and ambulance service use: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence
Ambulance data has been reported to be a sensitive indicator of health service use during hot days, but there is no comprehensive summary of the...
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Dietary fiber intake and urinary creatinine: methodological implications for epidemiological studies
Creatinine values are used to estimate renal function and to correct for urinary dilution in exposure assessment studies. Interindividual variability...
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Effects of Prenatal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure on Neonatal Outcomes—MLR and BKMR Models
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants that pose a potentially serious threat to maternal and infant health,...
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Development of transferable neighborhood land use regression models for predicting intra-urban ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) spatial variations
Land use regression (LUR) models have been extensively used to predict air pollution exposure in epidemiological and environmental studies. The lack...
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Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes
In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not...
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Gestational age modifies the association between exposure to fine particles and fetal death: findings from a nationwide epidemiological study in the contiguous United States
BackgroundsThe vulnerability of fetuses differs at different developmental stages, in response to environmental stressors such as fine particulate...
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The role of murine models in the study of the respiratory tract immune response induced by particulate matter
Environmental air pollution is a global problem. Among the main types of air pollutants that harm human health are ozone, particulate matter (PM),...
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Sustainable health-based soil standards for arsenic using epidemiological data and toxicokinetic/probabilistic modelling
This study presents an alternative method to the traditional reference dose approach for the determination of health risk-based soil standards for...
