Environmental health perspectives
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Nov 2014
Summertime acute heat illness in U.S. emergency departments from 2006 through 2010: analysis of a nationally representative sample.
Patients with acute heat illness present primarily to emergency departments (EDs), yet little is known regarding these visits. ⋯ Heat illness presented to the ED frequently, with highest rates in rural areas. Case definitions should include all diagnoses. Visit rates were correlated with temperature anomalies. Heat stroke had a high ED CFR. Males, elders, and the chronically ill were at greatest risk of admission or death in the ED. Chronic disease burden exponentially increased this risk.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Nov 2014
ReviewEvaluating potential response-modifying factors for associations between ozone and health outcomes: a weight-of-evidence approach.
Epidemiologic and experimental studies have reported a variety of health effects in response to ozone (O3) exposure, and some have indicated that certain populations may be at increased or decreased risk of O3-related health effects. ⋯ Using a weight-of-evidence approach, we identified a diverse group of factors that should be considered when characterizing the overall risk of health effects associated with exposures to ambient O3.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Nov 2014
Biography Historical ArticleAnthony (Tony) McMichael: 1942-2014.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Oct 2014
Long-term exposure to low-level arsenic in drinking water and diabetes incidence: a prospective study of the diet, cancer and health cohort.
Established causes of diabetes do not fully explain the present epidemic. High-level arsenic exposure has been implicated in diabetes risk, but the effect of low-level arsenic exposure in drinking water remains unclear. ⋯ Long-term exposure to low-level arsenic in drinking water may contribute to the development of diabetes.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Oct 2014
Asthma in inner-city children at 5-11 years of age and prenatal exposure to phthalates: the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health Cohort.
Studies suggest that phthalate exposures may adversely affect child respiratory health. ⋯ Prenatal exposure to BBzP and DnBP may increase the risk of asthma among inner-city children. However, because this is the first such finding, results require replication.