Individual- and area-level socioeconomic status variables as predictors of mortality in a cohort of 179,383 personsKyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1047-56. 2004
..Multivariate models that consider socioeconomic status as a potential confounder may not need to consider area-level socioeconomic status if data are available on individual-level education...
- Use of complementary and alternative medicine among men with prostate cancer in a rural setting
Susan Butler
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Community Health 36:1004-10. 2011
..In line with national patterns, younger and more educated rural patients were significantly more likely to have ever used CAM and to use it after treatment...
- Association of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) with uric acid among adults with elevated community exposure to PFOA
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:229-33. 2010
..PFOA has been associated with elevated uric acid in two studies of chemical workers. Uric acid is a risk factor for hypertension and possibly other cardiovascular outcomes...
- Accumulation and clearance of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in current and former residents of an exposed community
Ryan Seals
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:119-24. 2011
..Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a perfluoroalkyl acid found in > 99% of Americans. Its health effects are unknown. Prior estimates of serum half-life range from 2.3 to 3.8 years...
- The effect of race and rural residence on prostate cancer treatment choice among men in Georgia
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Urology 77:581-7. 2011
..To analyze differences for prostate cancer by race and in rural areas...
- Risk estimation with epidemiologic data when response attenuates at high-exposure levels
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:831-7. 2011
..Conversely, a model of untransformed (linear) exposure may underestimate risks attributable to exposures in the low-dose region...
- Factors affecting survival of patients with neurodegenerative disease
Kyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Neuroepidemiology 35:28-35. 2010
..Survival varies widely among different neurodegenerative diseases. Data on the role of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) in survival are sparse except for Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
- Dioxin revisited: developments since the 1997 IARC classification of dioxin as a human carcinogen
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:1265-8. 2004
..There are also new data regarding how the AhR functions in mediating the carcinogenic response to TCDD. The new evidence generally supports the 1997 IARC classification...
- One agent, many diseases: exposure-response data and comparative risks of different outcomes following silica exposure
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Ind Med 48:16-23. 2005
..Silica has, therefore, joined a handful of other toxic exposures such as tobacco smoke, dioxin, and asbestos which cause multiple serious diseases...
- Epidemiologic evidence on the health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:1100-8. 2010
..CONCLUSIONS: Epidemiologic evidence remains limited, and to date data are insufficient to draw firm conclusions regarding the role of PFOA for any of the diseases of concern...
- Prostate cancer incidence and survival in relation to education (United States)
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Cancer Causes Control 15:939-45. 2004
..There are few data on prostate cancer incidence and survival in relation to socioeconomic status in the 1990s, after the introduction of prostate specific Antigen (PSA) testing...
- Higher serum uric acid associated with decreased Parkinson's disease prevalence in a large community-based survey
Andrea Winquist
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Mov Disord 25:932-6. 2010
..78 mg/dl lower than the mean UA level among those not reporting PD (P <or= 0.0001). These findings concur with several previous longitudinal studies that found an association between higher UA levels and decreased PD risk...
- Recent trends in Alzheimer disease mortality in the United States, 1999 to 2004
Kyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 23:165-70. 2009
..AD reporting on death certificates is known to be poor. This is the first analysis of recent trends in AD mortality since the advent of ICD-10...
- Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis and Bayesian analysis of smoking as an unmeasured confounder in a study of silica and lung cancer
Kyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:384-92. 2004
..15, 1.78). Bayesian results were similar (95% posterior limits: 1.13, 1.84). The authors believe that these types of analyses, which make explicit and quantify sources of uncertainty, should be more widely adopted by epidemiologists...
- Analyses of diagnostic patterns at 30 Alzheimer's disease centers in the US
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Neuroepidemiology 35:19-27. 2010
..The US Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) (n = 30) recently created a uniform data set. We sought to determine which variables were most important in making a diagnosis, and how these differed across ADCs...
- An overview of methods for calculating the burden of disease due to specific risk factors
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Epidemiology 17:512-9. 2006
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- Mortality patterns following downsizing at Pan American World Airways
Kyle Steenland
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1-6. 2008
..69 and 0.64, respectively). These data do not indicate that mortality among those who left involuntarily was higher than for those who left voluntarily. Both groups showed a strong healthy worker effect...
- Association of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate with serum lipids among adults living near a chemical plant
Kyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:1268-78. 2009
..Because these data are cross-sectional, causal inference is limited. Nonetheless, the associations between these compounds and lipids raise concerns, given their common presence in the general population...
- Polychlorinated biphenyls and neurodegenerative disease mortality in an occupational cohort
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Epidemiology 17:8-13. 2006
..PCBs decrease dopamine levels in rats and monkeys. Loss of dopamine is the hallmark of Parkinson disease, a neurodegenerative disease. There are no epidemiologic studies of PCBs and neurodegenerative disease...
- Dioxin: exposure-response analyses and risk assessment
Kyle Steenland
Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ind Health 41:175-80. 2003
..1 and 13.0%. Our results agree broadly with results from a German cohort, which is the only other cohort for which a quantitative risk assessment has been conducted...
- A practical guide to dose-response analyses and risk assessment in occupational epidemiology
Kyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Epidemiology 15:63-70. 2004
..Points are illustrated using data from a study of dioxin and cancer...
- All-cause and cause-specific mortality by socioeconomic status among employed persons in 27 US states, 1984-1997
Kyle Steenland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1037-42. 2004
..We investigated mortality differences according to socioeconomic status (SES) for employed persons in 27 states during 1984-1997...
- Cancer outcomes research in a rural area: a multi-institution partnership model
Michael Goodman
Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Community Health 34:23-32. 2009
..Our partnership model may provide a useful framework for cancer outcomes research projects in rural communities...
- Deaths due to injuries among employed adults: the effects of socioeconomic class
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH, Atlanta, GA, USA
Epidemiology 14:74-9. 2003
..These deaths are of particular interest because they are potentially preventable and they represent the second leading cause of years of life lost under age 75...
- Caution in drawing conclusions from PBPK models based on sparse human data
Kyle Steenland
Risk Anal 27:7-8; author reply 9-10. 2007
- All-cause and cause-specific death rates by educational status for two million people in two American Cancer Society cohorts, 1959-1996
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226 1998, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:11-21. 2002
..Temporal trends showed increasing mortality differences by education for coronary heart disease, diabetes, and lung cancer for women...
- Time-related aspects of the healthy worker survivor effect
David Richardson
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Ann Epidemiol 14:633-9. 2004
..We use simulations and an empirical example to demonstrate that time-since-termination can be a confounding factor in analyses of occupational-exposure-mortality associations...
- Ten-year update on mortality among mild-steel welders
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45226, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 28:163-7. 2002
..This study is an update on the lung cancer risk of mild-steel welders with no asbestos exposure using a cohort of nonwelders for comparison...
- Development of quantitative exposure data for a pooled exposure-response analysis of 10 silica cohorts
Kyle Steenland
Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Am J Ind Med 42:73-86. 2002
..The difficulties encountered in deriving common exposure estimates across cohorts are discussed...
- Silicosis and end-stage renal disease
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 28:439-42. 2002
..The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of renal disease among workers with silicosis...
- Dying for work: The magnitude of US mortality from selected causes of death associated with occupation
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Am J Ind Med 43:461-82. 2003
..Deaths due to occupational disease and injury place a heavy burden on society in terms of economic costs and human suffering...
- Attenuation of exposure-response curves in occupational cohort studies at high exposure levels
Leslie Stayner
Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, United States
Scand J Work Environ Health 29:317-24. 2003
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- Ethylene oxide and breast cancer incidence in a cohort study of 7576 women (United States)
Kyle Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio 30322, USA
Cancer Causes Control 14:531-9. 2003
..ETO causes mammary tumors in mice, and has been associated with breast cancer incidence in one small epidemiologic study...
- The contribution of occupational risks to the global burden of disease: summary and next steps
Marilyn Fingerhut
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Room 715H, Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201, USA
Med Lav 97:313-21. 2006
..This article summarizes findings of the WHO CRA project, presents the estimates of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for total deaths due to workplace risks, and calls for action...
- The global burden of disease due to occupational carcinogens
Timothy Driscoll
ELMATOM Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Am J Ind Med 48:419-31. 2005
..Cases reported in the year 2000 that resulted from relevant past and current exposures are assessed...
