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Methylene Chloride Poisoning in a Cabinet Worker
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
More than a million workers are at risk for methylene chloride exposure. Aerosol sprays and paint stripping may also cause significant nonoccupational exposures. After methylene chloride inhalation, significant amounts of ...
Predictors of Plasma Concentrations of DDE and PCBs in a Group of U.S. Women.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
We evaluated predictors of plasma concentrations of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a group of 240 women, controls from ...
Workplace exposure to passive smoking and risk of cardiovascular disease: summary of epidemiologic studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
We reviewed the published epidemiologic studies addressing the relationship between workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and cardiovascular disease risk in three case-control studies and three cohort ...
Occupational Asthma and Contact Dermatitis in a Spray Painter after Introduction of an Aziridine Cross-Linker.
(The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)
A 23-year-old spray painter developed contact dermatitis and respiratory difficulty characterized by small airways obstruction shortly after the polyfunctional aziridine cross-linker CX-100 began to be used in his workplace ...
Bacterial Vaccines and Serotype Replacement: Lessons from Haemophilus influenzae and Prospects for Streptococcus pneumoniae
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1999)
Conjugate vaccines have reduced the incidence of invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae, type b (Hib), in industrialized countries and may be highly effective against Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the ...
Evaluation of Old and New Tests of Heterogeneity in Epidemiologic Meta-Analysis
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
The identification of heterogeneity in effects between studies is a key issue in meta-analyses of observational studies, since it is critical for determining whether it is appropriate to pool the individual results into ...
Reproducibility and validity of dietary patterns assessed with a food-frequency questionnaire
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
Background: Recently, the analysis of dietary patterns has emerged as a possible approach to examining diet-disease relations. Objective: We examined the reproducibility and validity of dietary patterns defined by factor ...
The Gene Encoding Atrial Natriuretic Peptide and the Risk of Human Stroke
(American Heart Association, 1999)
Risk Factors for Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Skin in Men: Results from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
Methylmercury neurotoxicity in Amazonian children downstream from gold mining
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999)
In widespread informal gold mining in the Amazon Basin, mercury is used to capture the gold particles as amalgam. Releases of mercury to the environment have resulted in the contamination of freshwater fish with methylmercury. ...