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Polychlorinated biphenyls in residential soils and their health risk and hazard in an industrial city in India

Journal of Public Health Research, 2014
Background. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have never been produced in India, but were used in industrial applications. PCBs have been detected in environmental samples since 1966, and their sources in soils come from depositions of industrial ...
Bhupander Kumar, Virendra Kumar Verma, Satish Kumar Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Avinash B. Akolkar   +5 more
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Air Pollution and the Risk and Progression of Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Air pollution has been linked to several neurological conditions, including stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. Evidence regarding its association with multiple sclerosis (MS) remains conflicting, limited by small sample sizes. Methods PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane controlled register of trials (CENTRAL) were searched on ...
Ahmad A. Toubasi, Thuraya N. Al‐Sayegh
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling the anthropogenic Hg pollution fingerprint on the marine fishery production worldwide: A preliminary exposure assessment for people living in countries having different income levels

Environment International
Mercury is a toxic pollutant that poses risks for the human population, mainly by eating contaminated fish. Mercury is released into the atmosphere from a variety of anthropogenic activities, with levels of emissions and under policy controls that ...
Francesco De Simone, Ian M. Hedgecock, Delia E. Bruno, Sergio Cinnirella, Francesca Sprovieri, Nicola Pirrone   +5 more
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Virtual earth cloud: a multi-cloud framework for enabling geosciences digital ecosystems

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Humankind is facing unprecedented global environmental and social challenges in terms of food, water and energy security, resilience to natural hazards, etc.
Mattia Santoro, Paolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi   +2 more
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Exposure to Household Air Pollution from Biomass-Burning Cookstoves and HbA1c and Diabetic Status Among Honduran Women [PDF]

, 2018
Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middle‐income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, such as Type II Diabetes, are ...
Africano, S., Bachand, A. M., Benka-Coker, Megan L., Brook, R. D., Clark, M. L., Good, N., Koehler, K., L\u27Orange, C., Nelson, T. L., Osorto Pinel, A. B., Peel, J. L., Rajkumar, S., Reynolds, S. J., Volckens, J., Young, B. N.   +14 more
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Effects of Causal Beliefs About Gout on Public Views About Gout Management: A Randomized Experimental Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Despite well‐described biologic causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch, Borislav Mihov, Anne Horne, Keith J. Petrie, Gregory D. Gamble, Lachlan Fleck, Nicola Dalbeth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Short‐Term Functional Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Individuals with SLE can accumulate functional status (FS) impairment. We evaluated the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the area deprivation index (ADI), and FS in a national SLE sample. Methods Data were derived from RISE, a national electronic health record‐based registry.
Baljeet Rai, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Jing Li, Eric Roberts, Patricia Katz, Laura Plantinga, Gabriela Schmajuk, Jinoos Yazdany   +7 more
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Occupational Safety of Different Industrial Sectors in Khartoum State, Sudan Part 2: Analysis of Occupational Accidents

Journal of High Institute of Public Health, 2012
Background: Accident analysis is a tool which can be used to obtain accurate information about the combined accident factors that when fixed, prevent recurrence. It includes recording and documenting work-related injuries.
Fadia A El-Marakby, Gehan R Zaki, Fatin H Nofal, Adel M Zakaraya, Yasser H Deign El-Nor   +4 more
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The APHEKOM Project: A literature review of air pollution interventions and their impact of public health [PDF]

, 2011
Intervention studies play an important role in supporting and complementing scientific validation of results of epidemiological non-intervention studies linking air pollution and health.
Analitis, A, Atkinson, RW, Chanel, O, Forsberg, B, Goodman, P, Henschel, S, Katsouyanni, K, Medina, S, Pascal, M, Zeka, A   +9 more
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Evaluation and analysis of noise levels in Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria [PDF]

, 2010
Evaluation and analysis of noise pollution levels have been carried out to determine the level of noise and its sources in Ilorin metropolis. Noise measurements have been done in the morning, at noon, in the evening, and at night to determine noise ...
Oyedepo, Sunday Olayinka
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