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Air pollution attributable postneonatal infant mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas: a risk assessment study
(BioMed Central, 2004)
Background: The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. Methods: Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk of postneonatal infant ...
Association between hemochromatosis genotype and lead exposure among elderly men: the normative aging study.
(2004)
Because body iron burden is inversely associated with lead absorption, genes associated with hemochromatosis may modify body lead burden. Our objective was to determine whether the C282Y and/or H63D hemochromatosis gene ...
Estimating the Independent Effects of Multiple Pollutants in the Presence of Measurement Error: An Application of a Measurement-Error–Resistant Technique
(2004)
Misclassification of exposure usually leads to biased estimates of exposure–response associations. This is particularly an issue in cases with multiple correlated exposures, where the direction of bias is uncertain. It is ...
Weather-Based Prediction of Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria in Epidemic-Prone Regions of Ethiopia II. Weather-Based Prediction Systems Perform Comparably to Early Detection Systems in Identifying Times for Interventions
(BioMed Central, 2004)
Background: Timely and accurate information about the onset of malaria epidemics is essential for effective control activities in epidemic-prone regions. Early warning methods that provide earlier alerts (usually by the ...
Is the Association of Airborne Particles with Daily Deaths Confounded by Gaseous Air Pollutants? An Approach to Control by Matching
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
Although particulate air pollution has been associated with increased numbers of daily deaths in dozens of cities around the world, issues still remain about the association. Some have questioned the complex modeling used ...
Effect of breast milk lead on infant blood lead levels at 1 month of age
(National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
Nursing infants may be exposed to lead from breast milk, but relatively few data exist with which to evaluate and quantify this relationship. This route of exposure constitutes a potential infant hazard from mothers with ...
Alert Threshold Algorithms and Malaria Epidemic Detection
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
We describe a method for comparing the ability of different alert threshold algorithms to detect malaria epidemics and use it with a dataset consisting of weekly malaria cases collected from health facilities in 10 districts ...
Effects of air pollution on heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study
(National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
Reduced heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of poor cardiac autonomic function, has been associated with air pollution, especially fine particulate matter [< 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM\(_{2.5}\))]. We examined ...
Pesticide spraying for West Nile virus control and emergency department asthma visits in New York City, 2000
(National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
Pyrethroid pesticides were applied via ground spraying to residential neighborhoods in New York City during July–September 2000 to control mosquito vectors of West Nile virus (WNV). Case reports link pyrethroid exposure ...
Lead, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Renal Function: The Normative Aging Study
(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 ...