Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: an updated review
After the discovery of fluoride as a caries-preventing agent in the mid-twentieth century, fluoridation of community water has become a widespread intervention, sometimes hailed as a mainstay of modern public ...Environmental Health 2019 18:110Short-term association between ambient temperature and homicide in South Africa: a case-crossover study
Criminology research has traditionally investigated sociodemographic predictors of crime, such as sex, race, age, and socioeconomic status. However, evidence suggests that short-term fluctuations in crime ofte...Environmental Health 2019 18:109Correction to: Managing pollution from antibiotics manufacturing: charting actors, incentives and disincentives
Following publication of the original article [1], the author explained that there are multiple errors in the original articleEnvironmental Health 2019 18:108The original article was published in Environmental Health 2019 18:95Longitudinal follow-up of health effects among workers handling engineered nanomaterials: a panel study
Although no human illness to date is confirmed to be attributed to engineered nanoparticles, occupational epidemiological studies are needed to verify the health effects of nanoparticles. This study used a rep...Environmental Health 2019 18:107Fluoride exposure and sleep patterns among older adolescents in the United States: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2015–2016
Fluoride from environmental sources accumulates preferentially in the pineal gland which produces melatonin, the hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. However, the effects of fluoride on sleep regulatio...Environmental Health 2019 18:106Use of skincare products and risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium: a prospective cohort study
Concerns have been raised that extensive use of personal care products that contain endocrine disrupting compounds increase the risk of hormone sensitive cancers.Environmental Health 2019 18:105Low-moderate arsenic exposure and respiratory in American Indian communities in the Strong Heart Study
Arsenic exposure through drinking water is an established lung carcinogen. Evidence on non-malignant lung outcomes is less conclusive and suggests arsenic is associated with lower lung function. Studies examin...Environmental Health 2019 18:104The effects of daily meteorological perturbation on pregnancy outcome: follow-up of a cohort of young women undergoing IVF treatment
Human reproduction follows a seasonal pattern with respect to spontaneous conception, a phenomenon wherein the effect of meteorological fluctuations might not be unique. However, the effect of seasonal variati...Environmental Health 2019 18:103Saliva cortisol in relation to aircraft noise exposure: pooled-analysis results from seven European countries
Many studies have demonstrated adverse effects of exposure to aircraft noise on health. Possible biological pathways for these effects include hormonal disturbances. Few studies deal with aircraft noise effect...Environmental Health 2019 18:102Air pollution and mortality in a large, representative U.S. cohort: multiple-pollutant analyses, and spatial and temporal decompositions
Cohort studies have documented associations between fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) and mortality risk. However, there remains uncertainty regarding the contribution of co-pollutants and the stabili...Environmental Health 2019 18:101Transcriptome-wide analysis of changes in the fetal placenta associated with prenatal arsenic exposure in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study
Increasing evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to arsenic, even at common environmental levels, adversely affects child health. These adverse effects include impaired fetal growth, which can carry serious...Environmental Health 2019 18:100Wrangling environmental exposure data: guidance for getting the best information from your laboratory measurements
Environmental health and exposure researchers can improve the quality and interpretation of their chemical measurement data, avoid spurious results, and improve analytical protocols for new chemicals by closel...Environmental Health 2019 18:99Effect of apparent temperature on daily emergency admissions for mental and behavioral disorders in Yancheng, China: a time-series study
Very few studies have focused on the relationship between ambient apparent temperature (AT) and admission of mental and behaviour disorders (MDs). Therefore, a time-series study was conducted in Yancheng, Chin...Environmental Health 2019 18:98Association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and asthma in 5-year-old children in the Odense Child Cohort
Asthma is the most common non-communicable disease in children. Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), a group of persistent environmental chemicals with endocrine disrupting abilities, has be...Environmental Health 2019 18:97Maternal exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and risk of premature rupture of membranes in Wuhan, Central China: a cohort study
The associations between maternal exposure to ambient PM2.5 during pregnancy and the risk of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) and preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) are controversial. And no rele...Environmental Health 2019 18:96Managing pollution from antibiotics manufacturing: charting actors, incentives and disincentives
Emissions of high concentrations of antibiotics from manufacturing sites select for resistant bacteria and may contribute to the emergence of new forms of resistance in pathogens. Many scientists, industry, po...Environmental Health 2019 18:95The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2019 18:108Determinants of arsenic methylation efficiency and urinary arsenic level in pregnant women in Bangladesh
Prenatal inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure is associated with pregnancy outcomes. Maternal capabilities of arsenic biotransformation and elimination may influence the susceptibility of arsenic toxicity. Therefo...Environmental Health 2019 18:94How can the integrity of occupational and environmental health research be maintained in the presence of conflicting interests?
The sciences, and especially the research subspecialties of occupational and environmental health, are being misused. The misuse serves to interfere with the advancement of policies that depend on rational evi...Environmental Health 2019 18:93Time-varying associations between prenatal metal mixtures and rapid visual processing in children
Humans are exposed to mixtures of chemicals across their lifetimes, a concept sometimes called the “exposome.” Mixtures likely have temporal “critical windows” of susceptibility like single agents and measurin...Environmental Health 2019 18:92Serum dioxin and DNA methylation in the sperm of operation ranch hand veterans exposed to Agent Orange
Exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War was widespread and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. A continuing concern of veterans is the possibility that exposure to the di...Environmental Health 2019 18:91Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study
Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products levels (FlOPs; an oxid...Environmental Health 2019 18:90Morbidity burden of respiratory diseases attributable to ambient temperature: a case study in a subtropical city in China
There are significant associations between ambient temperature and respiratory disease mortality. However, few studies have assessed the morbidity burdens of various respiratory diseases that are attributable ...Environmental Health 2019 18:89Methodological limitations in experimental studies on symptom development in individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) – a systematic review
Hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMF) is a controversial condition. While individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) claim to experience hea...Environmental Health 2019 18:88Impact of high drinking water nitrate levels on the endogenous formation of apparent N-nitroso compounds in combination with meat intake in healthy volunteers
Nitrate is converted to nitrite in the human body and subsequently can react with amines and amides in the gastrointestinal tract to form N-nitroso compounds (NOCs), which are known to be carcinogenic in animals....Environmental Health 2019 18:87Association of low-level blood lead with serum uric acid in U.S. adolescents: a cross-sectional study
Uncertainty remains regarding the association between blood lead levels (BLL) and serum uric acid (SUA) with relatively low BLL exposure because of limited data in the adolescent population. We examined the as...Environmental Health 2019 18:86
Prenatal maternal and childhood bisphenol a exposure and brain structure and behavior of young children
Bisphenol A (BPA) is commonly used in the manufacture of plastics and epoxy resins. In North America, over 90% of the population has detectable levels of urinary BPA. Human epidemiological studies have reporte...Environmental Health 2019 18:85Low concentrations of fine particle air pollution and mortality in the Canadian Community Health Survey cohort
Approximately 2.9 million deaths are attributed to ambient fine particle air pollution around the world each year (PM2.5). In general, cohort studies of mortality and outdoor PM2.5 concentrations have limited inf...Environmental Health 2019 18:84Geomagnetic disturbances driven by solar activity enhance total and cardiovascular mortality risk in 263 U.S. cities
Short-term geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) driven by the quasi-periodic 11-year cycle of solar activity have been linked to a broad range of adverse health effects, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and t...Environmental Health 2019 18:83Changes in triggering of ST-elevation myocardial infarction by particulate air pollution in Monroe County, New York over time: a case-crossover study
Previous studies have reported that fine particle (PM2.5) concentrations triggered ST elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMI). In Rochester, NY, multiple air quality policies and economic changes/influences from...Environmental Health 2019 18:82Association between a urinary biomarker for exposure to PAH and blood level of the acute phase protein serum amyloid A in coke oven workers
Coke oven workers are exposed to both free and particle bound PAH. Through this exposure, the workers may be at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. Systemic levels of acute phase response proteins have ...Environmental Health 2019 18:81Association of urinary concentrations of early pregnancy phthalate metabolites and bisphenol A with length of gestation
Environmental exposure to phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) may have endocrine disrupting effects that alter length of gestation. We assessed the association between the urinary concentrations of 11 phthalate m...Environmental Health 2019 18:80Making the invisible visible: results of a community-led health survey following PFAS contamination of drinking water in Merrimack, New Hampshire
In March 2016, citizens of Merrimack, New Hampshire, learned that their public water supply was contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). A subsequent state-led investigation revealed widespread contami...Environmental Health 2019 18:79Asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis: a systematic review and the experience of the Apulia (southern Italy) mesothelioma register
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis (MMTVT) is a rare disease with a poor prognosis. The diagnosis and management of these lesions are often difficult for pathologists, surgeons, oncologists ...Environmental Health 2019 18:78The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2019 18:111Ambient air pollution is associated with pediatric pneumonia: a time-stratified case–crossover study in an urban area
Pneumonia, the leading reason underlying childhood deaths, may be triggered or exacerbated by air pollution. To date, only a few studies have examined the association of air pollution with emergency department...Environmental Health 2019 18:77An overview of methods to address distinct research questions on environmental mixtures: an application to persistent organic pollutants and leukocyte telomere length
Numerous methods exist to analyze complex environmental mixtures in health studies. As an illustration of the different uses of mixture methods, we employed methods geared toward distinct research questions co...Environmental Health 2019 18:76Thyroid hormone levels associate with exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls in adults exposed as children
Michigan residents were directly exposed to endocrine-disrupting compounds, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to certain endocr...Environmental Health 2019 18:75Potential role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as mediators of cardiovascular effects from combustion particles
Air pollution is the most important environmental risk factor for disease and premature death, and exposure to combustion particles from vehicles is a major contributor. Human epidemiological studies combined ...Environmental Health 2019 18:74Personal carbon monoxide exposure, respiratory symptoms, and the potentially modifying roles of sex and HIV infection in rural Uganda: a cohort study
Most of the global burden of pollution-related morbidity and mortality is believed to occur in resource-limited settings, where HIV serostatus and sex may influence the relationship between air pollution expos...Environmental Health 2019 18:73Impact of the warm summer 2015 on emergency hospital admissions in Switzerland
Only a few studies have examined the impact of a particular heat event on morbidity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the warm summer 2015 on emergency hospital admissions (EHA) in Switzerla...Environmental Health 2019 18:66Long-term exposure to air pollution and hospitalization for dementia in the Rome longitudinal study
Few studies have explored the role of air pollution in neurodegenerative processes, especially various types of dementia. Our aim was to evaluate the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and...Environmental Health 2019 18:72Cumulative asbestos exposure and mortality from asbestos related diseases in a pooled analysis of 21 asbestos cement cohorts in Italy
Despite the available information on cancer risk, asbestos is used in large areas in the world, mostly in the production of asbestos cement. Moreover, questions are raised regarding the shape of the dose respo...Environmental Health 2019 18:71Acute effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease in Beijing, China: a time-series study
Air pollution and cardiovascular disease are increasing problems in China. However, the short-term association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is not well documented. The ...Environmental Health 2019 18:70CYP1A1 methylation mediates the effect of smoking and occupational polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons co-exposure on oxidative DNA damage among Chinese coke-oven workers
Multiple factors, including co-exposure between lifestyle and environmental risks, are important in susceptibility to oxidative DNA damage. However, the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. This study...Environmental Health 2019 18:69Correction to: Exposure to arsenic in utero is associated with various types of DNA damage and micronuclei in newborns: a birth cohort study
Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that incorrect version of Tables 1, 3, 5 and 6 were published.Environmental Health 2019 18:68The original article was published in Environmental Health 2019 18:51Neurocognitive impact of metal exposure and social stressors among schoolchildren in Taranto, Italy
Metal exposure is a public health hazard due to neurocognitive effects starting in early life. Poor socio-economic status, adverse home and family environment can enhance the neurodevelopmental toxicity due to...Environmental Health 2019 18:67
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