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| Luke P NaeherSummaryAffiliation: University of Georgia Country: USA Publications
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Use of isotope ratios to identify sources contributing to pediatric lead poisoning in PeruLuke P Naeher
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Arch Environ Health 58:579-89. 2003..Lead IR analysis of regional air filter samples supported these findings...- Real-time and time-integrated PM2.5 and CO from prescribed burns in chipped and non-chipped plots: firefighter and community exposure and health implicationsLuke P Naeher
Department of Environmental Health Science, The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Athens, 30602 2102, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 16:351-61. 2006..These findings have potentially important implications for both firefighters working prescribed burnings at chipped vs. non-chipped sites, as well as nearby communities who may be impacted from smoke traveling downwind from these sights... - Blood lead survey of children, pregnant women, professional drivers, street workers, and office workers in Trujillo, PeruLuke P Naeher
College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 2102, USA
Arch Environ Health 59:359-62. 2004..Nevertheless, the authors' findings suggest that leaded gasoline use in Trujillo continues to affect BLLs in traffic-exposed populations... - Personal PM(2.5) exposure among wildland firefighters working at prescribed forest burns in southeastern United StatesOlorunfemi Adetona
The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 8:503-11. 2011..Self-assessed exposure levels agreed with measured concentrations of PM(2.5). Correlation analysis shows that either PM(2.5) or CO could be used as a surrogate measure of exposure to woodsmoke at prescribed burns... - Evaluation of exposure reduction to indoor air pollution in stove intervention projects in Peru by urinary biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolitesZheng Li
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mail Stop F 53, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Environ Int 37:1157-63. 2011..The observed OH-PAH concentration in this study was comparable or higher than the 95th percentile of the general U.S. population, even after the stove intervention, indicating a high overall exposure in this population... - Residential exposures to PM2.5 and CO in Cusco, a high-altitude city in the Peruvian Andes: a pilot studyJohn L Pearce
University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Athens, Georgia 30602 2102, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 64:278-82. 2009..5) and CO exposure levels that are of potential human health concern, an issue that may be exacerbated by the physiological impact of living in a high-altitude environment... - Traffic-related occupational exposures to PM2.5, CO, and VOCs in Trujillo, PeruXianglu Han
University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 11:276-88. 2005..Several of the traffic-related occupational exposures studied were elevated and are of occupational health concern... - Application of end-exhaled breath monitoring to assess carbon monoxide exposures of wildland firefighters at prescribed burnsKevin H Dunn
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Inhal Toxicol 21:55-61. 2009..2% carboxyhemoglobin). The use of exhaled breath measurements for CO has limitations in characterizing exposures within this worker population... - Woodsmoke health effects: a reviewLuke P Naeher
Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Inhal Toxicol 19:67-106. 2007..In addition, we provide recommendations for additional woodsmoke research... - Blood lead levels in children after phase-out of leaded gasoline in Bombay, IndiaVikram Nichani
The University of Georgia (UGA, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, EHS) Building, Athens, GA 30602-2102, United States, and Panchsheel Hospital, Bombay, India
Sci Total Environ 363:95-106. 2006..The emphasis should shift in the study region towards sources of lead exposure other than leaded gasoline (lead in paints, lead in Herbal medicines and lead in Kohl)... - Lung function changes in wildland firefighters working at prescribed burnsOlorunfemi Adetona
Department of Environmental Health Science, The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA
Inhal Toxicol 23:835-41. 2011..Consequently, such results could have been confounded by normal circadian variation associated with lung function... - An estimate of phthalate exposure among pregnant women living in Trujillo, PeruElizabeth Ann Irvin
Department of Environmental Health Science, The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA
Chemosphere 80:1301-7. 2010..Five of nine unadjusted urinary metabolites and four of nine creatinine-adjusted urinary metabolites were significantly lower in this group of pregnant women living in Peru compared to pregnant women in the US general population... - Particulate matter and carbon monoxide multiple regression models using environmental characteristics in a high diesel-use area of Baguio City, PhilippinesBrandon E Cassidy
The University of Georgia UGA, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, Georgia, GA 30602 2102, USA
Sci Total Environ 381:47-58. 2007..The elevated pollution concentrations present and the diesel-rich nature of motor vehicle emissions are important pertaining to human exposure and health information and as such warrant public health concern... - Reduced PM2.5 in Trujillo, Peru, on El Dia Sin Autos ("The Day Without Cars")Brandon E Cassidy
The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, GA 30602 2102, USA
J Environ Health 73:14-8. 2010..9 +/- 6.0 microg/m3) when motor vehicles were not present within historic downtown Trujillo. Temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed during the motor vehicle ban and during normal traffic were not significantly different (p > .05)... - Organophosphorus and pyrethroid insecticide urinary metabolite concentrations in young children living in a southeastern United States cityLuke P Naeher
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sci Total Environ 408:1145-53. 2010.... - Perfluorinated chemicals in selected residents of the American continentAntonia M Calafat
Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE, Mailstop F17, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Chemosphere 63:490-6. 2006..Genetic variability, diet, lifestyle, or a combination of all these may contribute to the different patterns of human exposure to PFCs in the United States and Peru... - A pilot study to assess residential endotoxin and blood IgE in a group of pregnant women from Trujillo, PeruMolly C Visser
Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, EHS Building, Athens, GA 30602 2102, USA
Environ Int 33:147-50. 2007.... - Pesticide exposure resulting from treatment of lice infestation in school-aged children in GeorgiaLuke P Naeher
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
Environ Int 35:358-62. 2009.... - A review of traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment studies in the developing worldXianglu Han
The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, 30602, USA
Environ Int 32:106-20. 2006..The review ends with a summary of the limitations and gaps in recent studies and suggestions for future research in the developing world... - Testing the effectiveness of two improved cookstove interventions in the Santiago de Chuco Province of PeruChristopher Fitzgerald
The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, Athens, GA, USA
Sci Total Environ 420:54-64. 2012..05) with the exception of personal CO reductions in the stove 2 group. Both stoves markedly reduce both kitchen and personal levels of wood smoke exposure, which we believe has the potential to improve health and quality of life... - Tablet and inhaled controller medication refill frequencies in children with asthmaAnne M Fitzpatrick
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Pediatr Nurs 24:81-9. 2009..41%, p = .03). Refills peaked at the first month and incrementally declined (p < .05). Expanded asthma education did not increase refill frequency. Other methods of improving medication adherence may be warranted in this population... - Investigation of the relation between self-reported food consumption and household chemical exposures with urinary levels of selected nonpersistent pesticidesStephanie M Kieszak
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 12:404-8. 2002..We did find that people who reported recently using selected common chemicals had higher geometric mean urine pesticide/metabolite levels than did people who reported not recently using these chemicals... - Lung toxicity of ambient particulate matter from southeastern U.S. sites with different contributing sources: relationships between composition and effectsJeanclare Seagrave
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1387-93. 2006..Exposure to air pollution and, more specifically, particulate matter (PM) is associated with adverse health effects. However, the specific PM characteristics responsible for biological effects have not been defined... - A pilot study to assess ground-level ambient air concentrations of fine particles and carbon monoxide in urban GuatemalaDerek G Shendell
Environmental Science and Engineering Program, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, 90095 1772, USA
Environ Int 28:375-82. 2002.... - Multimedia measurements and activity patterns in an observational pilot study of nine young childrenNicolle S Tulve
National Exposure Research Laboratory, US EPA, MD E205 04, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 18:31-44. 2008.... - Application of real-time particle sensors to help mitigate exposures of wildland firefightersRufus Edwards
Department of Environmental Health Science and Policy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 7070, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 60:40-3. 2005..In addition, data-logging sensors would provide a valuable tool for tracking exposure to particulates among wildland firefighters for occupational health monitoring... - Gaseous and particulate emissions from prescribed burning in GeorgiaSangil Lee
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30312, USA
Environ Sci Technol 39:9049-56. 2005..In comparison with the previous source profile from laboratory simulations, however, this OC contribution is on average 27 +/- 5% lower... - Smoky indoor cooking fires are associated with elevated hemoglobin concentration in iron-deficient womenLynnette M Neufeld
, , Cuernavaca, Morelos,
Rev Panam Salud Publica 15:110-8. 2004..Further study of this matter could help to assure that appropriate adjustments to anemia cutoffs are made, if warranted, and could assist in clarifying potentially negative outcomes of exposure to smoke from biomass fuels burned indoors...