Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "case–control study"

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    • Association of Cumulative Lead Exposure with Parkinson’s Disease 

      Weisskopf, Marc G.; Weuve, Jennifer Lynn; Nie, Huiling; Saint-Hilaire, Marie-Helene; Sudarsky, Lewis Richard; Simon, David K.; Hersh, Bonnie Patricia; Schwartz, Joel David; Wright, Robert O.; Hu, Howard (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)
      Background: Research using reconstructed exposure histories has suggested an association between heavy metal exposures, including lead, and Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the only study that used bone lead, a biomarker of ...

    • Exposure to Fumonisins and the Occurrence of Neural Tube Defects Along the Texas–Mexico Border 

      Missmer, Stacey Ann; Suarez, Lucina; Felkner, Marilyn; Wang, Elaine; Merrill, Alfred H.; Rothman, Kenneth J.; Hendricks, Katherine A. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)
      Along the Texas–Mexico border, the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) among Mexican-American women doubled during 1990–1991. The human outbreak began during the same crop year as epizootics attributed to exposure to ...