Simple traffic measures significantly reduce the exposure of primary school children to NO2 [PDF]
, 2019 According to Public Health England (PHE, 2019) air quality is the largest environmental health risk in the UK; long-term exposure to air pollution claims some 28-36,000 premature deaths each year.
Cameron, Valerie +3 more
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Mapping environmental injustices: pitfalls and potential of geographic information systems in assessing environmental health and equity. [PDF]
, 2002 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used increasingly to map instances of environmental injustice, the disproportionate exposure of certain populations to environmental hazards.
Austin R +16 more
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, 2018 Argentina annually utilizes 240,000 tones of glyphosate in industrial agriculture and a change in the profile of morbidity is perceived for physicians of agricultural areas; now reproductive disorders seem to prevail.
M. Avila-Vazquez +4 more
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Redefining environmental exposure for disease etiology
npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2018 Etiological studies of human exposures to environmental factors typically rely on low-throughput methods that target only a few hundred chemicals or mixtures.
S. Rappaport
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Atmosphere, 2013 In most ecosystems, atmospheric deposition is the primary input of mercury. The total wet deposition of mercury in atmospheric chemistry models is sensitive to parameterization of the aqueous-phase reduction of divalent oxidized mercury (Hg2+).
Jesse O. Bash +3 more
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Simulating lightning NO production in CMAQv5.2: evolution of scientific updates [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2019 This work describes the lightning nitric oxide (LNO) production schemes in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. We first document the existing LNO production scheme and vertical distribution algorithm.
D. Kang +6 more
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Methodological Frontiers in Environmental Epidemiology [PDF]
, 2011 Environmental epidemiology comprises the epidemiologic study of those environmental factors that are outside the immediate control of the individual.
Rothman, K J
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Timing of maternal exposure and fetal sex determine the effects of low-level chemical mixture exposure on the fetal neuroendocrine system in sheep [PDF]
, 2016 We have shown that continuous maternal exposure to the complex mixture of environmental chemicals (ECs) found in human biosolids (sewage sludge), disrupts mRNA expression of genes crucial for development and long-term regulation of hypothalamo-pituitary ...
Bellingham, M. +7 more
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Environmental exposure to arsenic and chromium in an industrial area
Environmental science and pollution research international, 2017 Arsenic and chromium are widespread environmental contaminants that affect global health due to their toxicity and carcinogenicity. To date, few studies have investigated exposure to arsenic and chromium in a population residing in a high-risk ...
L. Vimercati +7 more
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Left Ventricular Structure and Function in Relation to Environmental Exposure to Lead and Cadmium
Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 Background Experimental studies have demonstrated that lead and cadmium have direct toxic effects on the myocardium, but the few human studies are limited by design, assessment of exposure, and use of heart failure as a late‐stage endpoint.
Wen‐Yi Yang +10 more
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