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Epidemiology, Environmental, and Infectious Risk Factors
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by excessive collagen deposition in the skin and internal organs...
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Exposure to environmental pollutants: A mini-review on the application of wastewater-based epidemiology approach
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is considered an innovative and promising tool for estimating community exposure to a wide range of chemical and...
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Pervasive structural racism in environmental epidemiology
BackgroundEpistemological biases in environmental epidemiology prevent the full understanding of how racism’s societal impacts directly influence...
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Towards a Precision Model for Environmental Public Health: Wastewater-based Epidemiology to Assess Population-level Exposures and Related Diseases
Purpose of ReviewImpacts from climate change and use of toxic chemicals that contaminate our environment continue to pose a threat to the health of...
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Environmental epidemiology in a crossfire
Two tendencies have emerged in environmental epidemiology that hamper the translation of research findings into prevention of environmental hazards....
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Influence of blood pressure polygenic risk scores and environmental factors on coronary artery disease in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study
The present study aimed to investigate the association of blood pressure polygenic risk scores (BP PRSs) with coronary artery disease (CAD) in a...
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A genome-wide association study of contralateral breast cancer in the Women’s Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study
BackgroundContralateral breast cancer (CBC) is the most common second primary cancer diagnosed in breast cancer survivors, yet the understanding of...
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Case-only approach applied in environmental epidemiology: 2 examples of interaction effect using the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets
IntroductionBy substituting the general ‘susceptibility factor’ concept for the conventional ‘gene’ concept in the case-only approach for...
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Advances in the Use of Residual Newborn Dried Blood Spots Within Environmental Epidemiology
Purpose of ReviewEpidemiological evidence links certain early-life environmental exposures to adverse health outcomes. However, neonatal biospecimens...
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Wastewater-based epidemiology: a new frontier for tracking environmental persistence and community transmission of COVID-19
Recent research in many parts of the world has pointed towards evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both treated and raw municipal wastewater discharged by...
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Practical Methods and Technologies in Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental epidemiology is a science that applies traditional epidemiology methods and combines the characteristics of the relationship between...
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Co-creating a local environmental epidemiology study: the case of citizen science for investigating air pollution and related health risks in Barcelona, Spain
BackgroundWhile the health risks of air pollution attract considerable attention, both scholarly and within the general population, citizens are...
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Authors’ rebuttal to Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) response to “Assessing risk of bias in human environmental epidemiology studies using three tools: different conclusions from different tools”
This letter responds to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program letter by Radke et al. (2021) that...
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Identification of Environmental Epidemiology Through Advanced Remote Sensing Based on NDVI
Advanced Remote Sensing (ARS) is a new scientific subject that combines high-performance computers and innovative spatial science techniques to...
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Use of Exposomic Methods Incorporating Sensors in Environmental Epidemiology
Purpose of ReviewThe exposome is a recently coined concept that comprises the totality of nongenetic factors that affect human health. It is...
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Wastewater-based Epidemiology and SARS-CoV-2: Variant Trends in the Apulia Region (Southern Italy) and Effect of Some Environmental Parameters
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater monitoring has been used to monitor the levels of SARS-CoV-2 RNA entering the sewerage system. In Italy, the...
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SARS-COV-2/COVID-19: scenario, epidemiology, adaptive mutations, and environmental factors
The coronavirus pandemic of 2019 has already exerted an enormous impact. For over a year, the worldwide pandemic has ravaged the whole globe, with...
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Methods for the Analysis of Multiple Epigenomic Mediators in Environmental Epidemiology
Purpose of ReviewEpigenetic changes can be highly influenced by environmental factors and have in turn been proposed to influence chronic disease....
