Browsing by Author "Speizer, Frank"

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    • Chronic Fine and Coarse Particulate Exposure, Mortality, and Coronary Heart Disease in the Nurses’ Health Study 

      Puett, Robin C.; Yanosky, Jeff D; Hart, Jaime Elizabeth; Paciorek, Christopher Joseph; Schwartz, Joel David; Suh MacIntosh, Helen H.; Speizer, Frank Erwin; Laden, Francine (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Background: The relationship of fine particulate matter < 2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5) air pollution with mortality and cardiovascular disease is well established, with more recent long-term studies reporting larger effect ...

    • Impact of Extended-Duration Shifts on Medical Errors, Adverse Events, and Attentional Failures 

      Barger, Laura; Ayas, Najib T; Cade, Brian E; Cronin, John W; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Speizer, Frank Erwin; Czeisler, Charles Andrew (Public Library of Science, 2006)
      Background: A recent randomized controlled trial in critical-care units revealed that the elimination of extended-duration work shifts (≥24 h) reduces the rates of significant medical errors and polysomnographically recorded ...

    • Increased Risk of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Episodes Associated with Acute Increases in Ambient Air Pollution 

      Rich, David Q.; Mittleman, Murray A.; Link, Mark S.; Schwartz, Joel David; Luttmann-Gibson, Heike; Catalano, Paul J.; Speizer, Frank Erwin; Gold, Diane R.; Dockery, Douglas W. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2006)
      Objectives: We reported previously that 24-hr moving average ambient air pollution concentrations were positively associated with ventricular arrhythmias detected by implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). ICDs ...

    • Lung Cancer in Railroad Workers Exposed to Diesel Exhaust 

      Garshick, Eric; Laden, Francine; Hart, Jaime Elizabeth; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Smith, Thomas J.; Dockery, Douglas W.; Speizer, Frank Erwin (National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
      Diesel exhaust has been suspected to be a lung carcinogen. The assessment of this lung cancer risk has been limited by lack of studies of exposed workers followed for many years. In this study, we assessed lung cancer ...

    • Occupational and environmental lung diseases: an overview. 

      Speizer, Frank Erwin (2000)

    • Oral contraceptive use and mortality after 36 years of follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study: prospective cohort study 

      Charlton, Brittany Michelle; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Colditz, Graham Andrew; Missmer, Stacey Ann; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Speizer, Frank E.; Michels, Karin B. (BMJ, 2014)
      Objective: To determine whether use of oral contraceptives is associated with all cause and cause specific mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study, data collected between 1976 and ...

    • Polymorphic repeat in AIB1 does not alter breast cancer risk 

      Haiman, Christopher A; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Colditz, Graham A.; Willett, Walter C.; Speizer, Frank Erwin; Brown, Myles Avery; Hunter, David J. (BioMed Central, 2000)
      We assessed the association between a glutamine repeat polymorphism in AIB1 and breast cancer risk in a case-control study (464 cases, 624 controls) nested within the Nurses' Health Study cohort. We observed no association ...

    • Reduction in Heart Rate Variability with Traffic and Air Pollution in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease 

      Zanobetti, Antonella; Gold, Diane R.; Stone, Peter Howard; Suh MacIntosh, Helen H.; Schwartz, Joel David; Coull, Brent Andrew; Speizer, Frank Erwin (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Introduction: Ambient particulate pollution and traffic have been linked to myocardial infarction and cardiac death risk. Possible mechanisms include autonomic cardiac dysfunction. Methods: In a repeated-measures study of ...

    • Studies of acid aerosols in six cities and in a new multi-city investigation: design issues. 

      Speizer, Frank Erwin (1989)
      Techniques for measuring acid aerosols in the ambient environment have been developed only recently. As part of the on-going Harvard Study on the Health Effects of Sulfur Dioxide and Respirable Particulates, we have developed ...