Browsing by Author "Korrick, Susan"

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    • Association of Blood Lead Levels with Onset of Puberty in Russian Boys 

      Hauser, Russ B.; Sergeyev, Oleg; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Lee, Mary M.; Revich, Boris; Gitin, Elena; Burns, Jane S; Williams, Paige L. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Background: Epidemiologic studies suggest a temporal trend of earlier onset and longer duration of puberty, raising concerns regarding the potential impact of environmental factors on pubertal development. Lead exposure ...

    • Associations of Peripubertal Serum Dioxin and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Concentrations with Pubertal Timing among Russian Boys 

      Burns, Jane S.; Lee, Mary M.; Williams, Paige L.; Korrick, Susan A.; Sergeyev, Oleg; Lam, Thuy; Revich, Boris; Hauser, Russ (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2016)
      Background: Dioxins, furans, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin-like and non-dioxin-like, have been linked to alterations in puberty. Objectives: We examined the association of peripubertal serum levels of these ...

    • Blood Lead Levels and Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Concentrations in Peripubertal Boys 

      Fleisch, Abby F.; Burns, Jane S.; Williams, Paige L.; Lee, Mary M.; Sergeyev, Oleg; Korrick, Susan A.; Hauser, Russ (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)
      Background: Childhood lead exposure has been associated with growth delay. However, the association between blood lead levels (BLLs) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) has not been characterized in a large cohort ...

    • Blood Pressure Changes in Relation to Arsenic Exposure in a U.S. Pregnancy Cohort 

      Farzan, Shohreh F.; Chen, Yu; Wu, Fen; Jiang, Jieying; Liu, Mengling; Baker, Emily; Korrick, Susan A.; Karagas, Margaret R. (NLM-Export, 2015)
      Background: Inorganic arsenic exposure has been related to the risk of increased blood pressure based largely on cross-sectional studies conducted in highly exposed populations. Pregnancy is a period of particular vulnerability ...

    • Comparison of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels across Studies of Human Neurodevelopment 

      Longnecker, Matthew P.; Wolff, Mary S.; Gladen, Beth C.; Brock, John W.; Grandjean, Philippe; Jacobson, Joseph L.; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Rogan, Walter J.; Weisglas-Kuperus, Nynke; Hertz-Picciotto, Irva; Ayotte, Pierre; Stewart, Paul; Winneke, Gerhard; Charles, M. Judith; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Dewailly, Éric; Boersma, E. Rudy; Altshul, Larisa M.; Heinzow, Birger; Pagano, James J.; Jensen, Allan A. (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2002)
      Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent pollutants that are ubiquitous in the food chain, and detectable amounts are in the blood of almost every person in most populations that have been examined. Extensive evidence ...

    • Cumulative Exposure to Lead in Relation to Cognitive Function in Older Women 

      Weuve, Jennifer Lynn; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Weisskopf, Marc G.; Ryan, Louise Marie; Schwartz, Joel David; Nie, Huiling; Grodstein, Francine; Hu, Howard (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Background: Recent data indicate that chronic low-level exposure to lead is associated with accelerated declines in cognition in older age, but this has not been examined in women. Objective: We examined biomarkers of lead ...

    • Cumulative Lead Exposure and Age at Menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study Cohort 

      Eum, Ki-Do; Weisskopf, Marc G.; Nie, Linda H.; Hu, Howard; Korrick, Susan A. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2014)
      Background: Early menopause has been associated with many adverse health outcomes, including increased risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Lead has been found to be adversely associated with female ...

    • Does Living Near a Superfund Site Contribute to Higher Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Exposure? 

      Tolbert, Paige E.; Choi, Anna L; Choi, Anna Lai; Levy, Jonathan Ian; Dockery, Douglas W.; Ryan, Louise Marie; Altshul, Larisa; Korrick, Susan Abigail (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2006)
      We assessed determinants of cord serum polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) levels among 720 infants born between 1993 and 1998 to mothers living near a PCB-contaminated Superfund site in Massachusetts, measuring the sum of 51 ...

    • Environmental Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls and p,p´-DDE and Sperm Sex-Chromosome Disomy 

      McAuliffe, Megan E.; Williams, Paige L.; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Altshul, Larisa M.; Perry, Melissa J. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)
      Background: Chromosomal abnormalities contribute substantially to reproductive problems, but the role of environmental risk factors has received little attention. Objectives: We evaluated the association of polychlorinated ...

    • Evidence on the Human Health Effects of Low Level Methylmercury Exposure 

      Karagas, Margaret R.; Choi, Anna Lai; Oken, Emily; Horvat, Milena; Schoeny, Rita; Kamai, Elizabeth; Cowell, Whitney J; Grandjean, Philippe; Korrick, Susan Abigail (2012)
      Background: Methylmercury (MeHg) is a known neurotoxicant. Emerging evidence indicates it may have adverse effects on the neurologic and other body systems at common low levels of exposure. Impacts of MeHg exposure could ...

    • Evidence on the Human Health Effects of Low-Level Methylmercury Exposure 

      Karagas, Margaret R.; Choi, Anna Lai; Oken, Emily; Horvat, Milena; Schoeny, Rita; Kamai, Elizabeth; Cowell, Whitney; Grandjean, Philippe; Korrick, Susan Abigail (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)
      Background: Methylmercury (MeHg) is a known neuro-toxicant. Emerging evidence indicates it may have adverse effects on the neurologic and other body systems at common low levels of exposure. Impacts of MeHg exposure could ...

    • Genetic Modification of the Association between Peripubertal Dioxin Exposure and Pubertal Onset in a Cohort of Russian Boys 

      Humblet, Olivier; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Williams, Paige L.; Sergeyev, Oleg; Emond, Claude; Birnbaum, Linda S.; Burns, Jane S; Altshul, Larisa M.; Patterson, Donald G.; Turner, Wayman E.; Lee, Mary M.; Revich, Boris; Hauser, Russ B. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)
      Background: Exposure to dioxins has been associated with delayed pubertal onset in both epidemiologic and animal studies. Whether genetic polymorphisms may modify this association is currently unknown. Identifying such ...

    • High breast milk levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) among four women living adjacent to a PCB-contaminated waste site 

      Korrick, Susan Abigail; Altshul, Larisa M. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1998)
      As a consequence of contamination by effluents from local electronics manufacturing facilities, the New Bedford Harbor and estuary in southeastern Massachusetts is among the sites in the United States that are considered ...

    • Infant Infections and Respiratory Symptoms in Relation to in Utero Arsenic Exposure in a U.S. Cohort 

      Farzan, Shohreh F.; Li, Zhigang; Korrick, Susan A.; Spiegelman, Donna; Enelow, Richard; Nadeau, Kari; Baker, Emily; Karagas, Margaret R. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2015)
      Background: Arsenic has been linked to disrupted immune function and greater infection susceptibility in highly exposed populations. Well arsenic levels above the U.S. EPA limit occur in our U.S. study area and are of ...

    • Lead, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Renal Function: The Normative Aging Study 

      Tsaih, Shirng-Wern; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Schwartz, Joel David; Amarasiriwardena, Chitra J.; Aro, Antonio; Sparrow, David; Hu, Howard (National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
      In this prospective study, we examined changes in renal function during 6 years of follow-up in relation to baseline lead levels, diabetes, and hypertension among 448 middle-age and elderly men, a subsample of the Normative ...

    • Measured Prenatal and Estimated Postnatal Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and ADHD-Related Behaviors in 8-Year-Old Children 

      Verner, Marc-André; Hart, Jaime E.; Sagiv, Sharon K.; Bellinger, David C.; Altshul, Larisa M.; Korrick, Susan A. (NLM-Export, 2015)
      Background: Epidemiologic studies of postnatal PCB exposure and behavior have not reported consistent evidence of adverse associations, possibly because of challenges in exposure estimation. We previously developed a ...

    • Neuropsychological Measures of Attention and Impulse Control among 8-Year-Old Children Exposed Prenatally to Organochlorines 

      Sagiv, Sharon K.; Thurston, Sally W.; Bellinger, David C.; Altshul, Larisa M.; Korrick, Susan Abigail (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)
      Background: We previously reported associations between organochlorines and behaviors related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among boys and girls at 8 years of age using a teacher’s rating scale for a birth ...

    • Predictors of Serum Chlorinated Pesticide Concentrations among Prepubertal Russian Boys 

      Lam, Thuy; Williams, Paige L.; Burns, Jane S.; Sergeyev, Oleg; Korrick, Susan A.; Lee, Mary M.; Birnbaum, Linda S.; Revich, Boris; Altshul, Larisa M.; Patterson, Donald G.; Turner, Wayman E.; Hauser, Russ (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)
      Background: Few studies have evaluated predictors of childhood exposure to organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), a class of lipophilic persistent chemicals. Objectives: Our goal was to identify predictors of serum OCP ...

    • Predictors of serum dioxin levels among adolescent boys in Chapaevsk, Russia: A cross-sectional pilot study 

      Hauser, Russ B.; Williams, Paige L.; Altshul, Larisa M.; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Peeples, Lynne; Patterson, Donald G; Turner, Wayman E; Lee, Mary M; Revich, Boris; Sergeyev, Oleg (BioMed Central, 2005)
      Background: Toxicological studies and limited human studies have demonstrated associations between exposure to polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls ...

    • Predictors of Serum Dioxins and PCBs among Peripubertal Russian Boys 

      Sergeyev, Oleg; Lee, Mary M.; Revich, Boris; Patterson, Donald G.; Turner, Wayman E.; Needham, Larry L.; Saharov, Igor; Burns, Jane S; Williams, Paige L.; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Altshul, Lairsa; Hauser, Russ B. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Background: Although sources and routes of exposure to dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been studied, information regarding exposure among children is limited. Breast-feeding and diet are two important ...