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Hypertension and exposure to noise near airports: the HYENA studyLars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 116:329-33. 2008..Hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and even a small contribution in risk from environmental factors may have a major impact on public health...- Health and environment information systems for exposure and disease mapping, and risk assessmentLars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 112:995-7. 2004..K. Small Area Health Statistics Unit and enhanced in the European Health and Environment Information System project, for an initial quick evaluation of any potential health hazards associated with an environmental pollutant... - Hypertension and Exposure to Noise near Airports (HYENA): study design and noise exposure assessmentLars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 113:1473-8. 2005.... - Down syndrome in births near landfill sitesLars Jarup
The Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
Prenat Diagn 27:1191-6. 2007..The aim of the study was to examine the risk of giving birth to a child with Down syndrome associated with residence near landfill sites in England and Wales... - Hazards of heavy metal contaminationLars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
Br Med Bull 68:167-82. 2003..Occupational exposure to arsenic, primarily by inhalation, is causally associated with lung cancer. Clear exposure-response relationships and high risks have been observed... - Current status of cadmium as an environmental health problemLars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 238:201-8. 2009..Therefore, measures should be put in place to reduce exposure to a minimum, and the tolerably daily intake should be set in accordance with recent findings... - Kidney disease mortality and environmental exposure to mercurySusan Hodgson
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 165:72-7. 2007.... - Assessment of exposure to mercury from industrial emissions: comparing "distance as a proxy" and dispersion modelling approachesSusan Hodgson
Small Area Health Statistics Unit SAHSU, Imperial College London, London, UK
Occup Environ Med 64:380-8. 2007..Ongoing epidemiological investigations into the effect of ambient mercury exposure on dose and renal effect required a more refined assessment of exposure... - Medication use in relation to noise from aircraft and road traffic in six European countries: results of the HYENA studySarah Floud
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W21PG, UK
Occup Environ Med 68:518-24. 2011..Our aim was to assess the use of medication in relation to noise from aircraft and road traffic... - Chlorination disinfection by-products and risk of congenital anomalies in England and WalesMark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 116:216-22. 2008..Increased risk of various congenital anomalies has been reported to be associated with trihalomethane (THM) exposure in the water supply... - Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthmaJames McCreanor
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
N Engl J Med 357:2348-58. 2007..We investigated the effects of short-term exposure to diesel traffic in people with asthma in an urban, roadside environment... - Evaluation of spatial relationships between health and the environment: the rapid inquiry facilityLinda Beale
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, UK
Environ Health Perspect 118:1306-12. 2010.... - Relation of trihalomethane concentrations in public water supplies to stillbirth and birth weight in three water regions in EnglandMireille B Toledano
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 113:225-32. 2005..Further work is needed looking at cause-specific stillbirths and effects of other disinfection by-products and to help differentiate between alternative (noncausal) explanations and those that may derive from the water supply... - An approach for estimating the health effects of changes over time in air pollution: an illustration using cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in LondonCathryn Tonne
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Occup Environ Med 67:422-7. 2010.... - Methodologic issues and approaches to spatial epidemiologyLinda Beale
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 116:1105-10. 2008..Tools designed to facilitate the investigation process are being developed, although the availability of complete and clean health data, and appropriate exposure data often remain limiting factors... - Cadmium overload and toxicityLars Jarup
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
Nephrol Dial Transplant 17:35-9. 2002..Further research on cadmium is necessary to reveal the mechanisms of toxicity and true environmental and occupational exposure limits... - Early kidney damage in a population exposed to cadmium and other heavy metalsLaura D K Thomas
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 117:181-4. 2009..Exposure to heavy metals may cause kidney damage. The population living near the Avonmouth zinc smelter has been exposed to cadmium and other heavy metals for many decades... - Temporal trends in orchidopexy, Great Britain, 1992-1998Mireille B Toledano
The Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 111:129-32. 2003..Either way, our findings do not support the postulate of a recent worsening of male reproductive health of the scale suggested by some recent commentators on the endocrine disruptor hypothesis... - Creating a national register of childhood type 1 diabetes using routinely collected hospital dataSusan Hodgson
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK MRC HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Paediatric Epidemiology Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, London, UK
Pediatr Diabetes 13:235-43. 2012..For younger cases (0-9 yr) and more recent years (from 2000) these data will be a useful resource for epidemiological studies exploring the determinants of childhood diabetes... - Geographical epidemiology of prostate cancer in Great BritainLars Jarup
The Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 97:695-9. 2002..The absence of any marked geographical variability at a small-area scale argues against a geographically varying environmental factor operating strongly in the aetiology of prostate cancer... - Comparison of different methods for spatial analysis of cancer data in UtahWayne Ball
Environmental Epidemiology Program, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 2104, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1120-4. 2008..The RIF enables access of additional dimensions of data, identifies potentially exposed populations, and computes disease rates and relative risk statistics for that potentially exposed population... - Acute effects of night-time noise exposure on blood pressure in populations living near airportsAlexandros S Haralabidis
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75, Mikras Asias Street, Athens 11527, Greece
Eur Heart J 29:658-64. 2008.... - Using geographic information systems for exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology studiesJohn R Nuckols
Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:1007-15. 2004.... - Cardio-respiratory morbidity and long-term exposure to particulate air pollutionChristine Solomon
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southhampton, UK
Int J Environ Health Res 13:327-35. 2003..This is in contrast to observations in US studies. In view of this discordance, there is a need for further evaluation of the long-term impact of particulate pollution on health in the UK...