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| Edwin van WijngaardenSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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Interpreting epidemiological evidence in the presence of multiple endpoints: an alternative analytic approach using the 9-year follow-up of the Seychelles child development studyEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 82:1031-41. 2009..These studies evaluate a large number of developmental tests. We propose an alternative analysis strategy that reduces the number of comparisons tested in these studies...- Prostate-specific antigen levels in relation to cadmium exposure and zinc intake: results from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Prostate 68:122-8. 2008..We evaluated total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in relation to urinary cadmium concentrations and dietary zinc intake... - Bone lead levels are associated with measures of memory impairment in older adultsEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, United States
Neurotoxicology 30:572-80. 2009..19). Given the demonstrated impact of lead exposure on hypertension and the vascular etiology of certain dementias, we speculate that hypertension could play a mediating role in the association between lead exposure and memory impairment... - Benchmark concentrations for methyl mercury obtained from the 9-year follow-up of the Seychelles Child Development StudyEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neurotoxicology 27:702-9. 2006..These estimates are somewhat lower than those obtained after 66 months of follow-up. The Seychelles Child Development Study continues to provide a firm scientific basis for the derivation of safe levels of MeHg consumption... - Brain cancer mortality and potential occupational exposure to lead: findings from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, 1979-1989Edwin van Wijngaarden
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Int J Cancer 119:1136-44. 2006.... - A simple approach to performing quantitative cancer risk assessment using published results from occupational epidemiology studiesEdwin van Wijngaarden
Health Sciences Institute, ENVIRON International Corporation, PO Box 2424, Amherst, MA 01004, USA
Sci Total Environ 332:81-7. 2004..The methods described should facilitate the use of published epidemiological data in the estimation of cancer risk in the general or working population... - A case-control study of ultraviolet radiation exposure, vitamin D, and lymphoma risk in adultsJennifer L Kelly
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1265-75. 2010.... - Blood lead levels of refugee children resettled in Massachusetts, 2000 to 2007Katherine W Eisenberg
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Public Health 101:48-54. 2011..We also investigated the incidence of BLL increases and BLLs newly elevated to 20 ?g/dL or higher in the year following initial testing, along with associated factors... - A population-based study of blood lead levels in relation to depression in the United StatesNatalia I Golub
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 83:771-7. 2010..We evaluated the relationship between blood lead levels (BLL) and depression in a sample representative of the US population... - Fish consumption, mercury exposure, and their associations with scholastic achievement in the Seychelles Child Development StudyPhilip W Davidson
University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Pediatrics, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neurotoxicology 31:439-47. 2010..The adverse association of educational measures with postnatal exposure in males is intriguing, but will need to be confirmed by further studies examining factors that influence scholastic achievement... - Blood lead levels in relation to cognitive function in older U.S. adultsEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, United States
Neurotoxicology 32:110-5. 2011..Early-life or long-term, accumulated lead exposures may be etiologically more relevant to accelerated cognitive decline at older age... - Physiologic dysfunction scores and cognitive function test performance in U.S. adultsRoni W Kobrosly
MPH, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychosom Med 74:81-8. 2012..To investigate the relationship between a measure of cumulative physiologic dysfunction and specific domains of cognitive function... - Fish consumption and prenatal methylmercury exposure: Cognitive and behavioral outcomes in the main cohort at 17 years from the Seychelles child development studyPhilip W Davidson
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, United States
Neurotoxicology 32:711-7. 2011..For some endpoints we found performance improved with increasing prenatal exposure to MeHg. Follow up studies indicate this association is related to the beneficial nutrients present in fish... - Associations between immunologic, inflammatory, and oxidative stress markers with severity of depressive symptoms: an analysis of the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyRoni Kobrosly
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neurotoxicology 31:126-33. 2010..Further research is needed to identify the biological basis for this persistent association... - Evaluation of occupational exposure to magnetic fields and motor neuron disease mortality in a population-based cohortLauren E Parlett
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:1447-51. 2011..We evaluated the association between electromagnetic fields and MND among workers in occupations potentially exposed to magnetic fields.. - Prostate-specific antigen levels in relation to consumption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen: results from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyEric A Singer
Department of Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
Cancer 113:2053-7. 2008..To further characterize this association, the authors evaluated serum PSA levels with regard to NSAID and acetaminophen consumption in a large cross-sectional study of men in the US... - A population-based assessment of blood lead levels in relation to inflammationNatthapol Songdej
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Environ Res 110:272-7. 2010..Some experimental and observational research suggests that inflammation may be an important mediator of lead toxicity. However, lead-induced inflammation has not been well-studied in non-occupationally exposed populations... - Openness and conscientiousness predict 34-week patterns of Interleukin-6 in older personsBenjamin P Chapman
Center for Mind Body Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Brain Behav Immun 25:667-73. 2011..Older adults lower in Conscientiousness and Openness constitute a target population for anti-inflammatory interventions. Openness and Conscientiousness predicts 32-week patterns of Interleukin-6 in older persons... - Timing of delivery and survival rates for infants with prenatal diagnoses of congenital diaphragmatic herniaTimothy P Stevens
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Pediatrics 123:494-502. 2009.... - A pilot, open-label safety study of quetiapine for treatment of moderate psychotic agitation in the emergency settingGlenn W Currier
University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 12:223-8. 2006..The goal of this pilot study was primarily to explore the safety and, secondarily, the efficacy of the use of "prn" quetiapine for treatment of moderate agitation accompanied by psychosis in an emergency department setting... - Mental healthcare need and service utilization in older adults living in public housingAdam Simning
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine AS, EVW, SGF and Department of Psychiatry TMR, YC, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:441-51. 2012..This study aims to characterize mental illness and its treatment in older adult public housing residents who have many risk factors for anxiety and depression... - A population-based cohort study of occupational exposure to magnetic fields and cardiovascular disease mortalityAnna R Cooper
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York 14642, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:42-8. 2009..This cohort study aims to examine cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risks among workers in occupations potentially exposed to magnetic fields (MF)... - Socioeconomic position and cognitive function in the Seychelles: a life course analysisRoni W Kobrosly
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Neuroepidemiology 36:162-8. 2011..In this study, we sought to confirm the relation between early-life socioeconomic position (SEP) and adult cognitive function, and to examine potential mediation by contemporaneous SEP... - Concentrations of urinary phthalate metabolites are associated with increased waist circumference and insulin resistance in adult U.S. malesRichard W Stahlhut
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:876-82. 2007..Low testosterone in adult human males has been associated with increased prevalence of obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes... - Literature review of cancer mortality and incidence among dentistsAdam Simning
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Occup Environ Med 64:432-8. 2007..Future studies of dentists would benefit from the assessment of specific occupational exposures rather than relying on job title alone... - Neoadjuvant gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy for locally advanced urothelial cancer of the bladderEmil Scosyrev
Department of Urology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Cancer 118:72-81. 2012..The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin (GC) on pathologic down-staging of patients with locally advanced urothelial cancer (UC) of the bladder... - Vitamin D and non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk in adults: a reviewJennifer L Kelly
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Cancer Invest 27:942-51. 2009..This review provides a comprehensive discussion of the current epidemiologic evidence with regard to the investigation of an association between vitamin D status and NHL risk... - Palliative care needs and symptom patterns of hospitalized elders referred for consultationAaron M Olden
Department of Medicine, Unity Health System, Rochester, New York 14626, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 42:410-8. 2011..To provide effective palliative care (PC) to the geriatric population, an understanding of the reasons for consultation, main diagnoses related to referral, and symptom severity in chronic disease states is essential... - Critical literature review of determinants and levels of occupational benzene exposure for United States community-based case-control studiesEdwin van Wijngaarden
Applied Epidemiology, Inc, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Appl Occup Environ Hyg 18:678-93. 2003..Nevertheless, this review may clarify some of the procedures involved in assessing occupational exposures in community-based studies and may aid in the interpretation of previous occupational studies that relied on job title or industry... - Anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders in United States African-American public housing residentsAdam Simning
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:983-92. 2011..To better understand healthcare disparities within African-Americans communities, we characterized anxiety, mood, and substance use disorder prevalence and associated service utilization among public and non-public housing residents... - Sleep-disordered breathing and behaviors of inner-city children with asthmaMaria Fagnano
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 124:218-25. 2009..To explore the relationship between sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and behavioral problems among inner-city children with asthma... - Mortality of mental disorders in relation to potential pesticide exposureEdwin van Wijngaarden
Applied Epidemiology, Inc, P O Box 2424, Amherst, MA 01004, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:564-8. 2003..32; 95% CI = 2.44-7.64). These results must be interpreted with caution, however, because the impact of social and work-related factors other than pesticide exposure is not known... - Parental occupational exposure to pesticides and childhood brain cancerEdwin van Wijngaarden
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:989-97. 2003..Most risk estimates were around unity, and exposure-response patterns were absent. Overall, it seems unlikely that parental exposure to pesticides plays an important role in the etiology of childhood brain cancer... - Renal sonography with 2-dimensional versus cine organ imaging: preliminary resultsDana Jandzinski
Department of Radiology, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Ultrasound Med 26:635-44. 2007..This pilot study was undertaken to determine whether cine organ imaging (COI) of the entire kidney yields a quicker and equally diagnostic study compared with traditional 2-dimensional (2D) scanning... - Issues when modeling benzene, toluene, and xylene exposures using a literature databaseMisty J Hein
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 5:36-47. 2008.... - Paternal occupation and childhood cancerAndrew F Olshan
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 518:147-61. 2003 - Apportionment of disease in individualsKenneth A Mundt
J Clin Epidemiol 56:290-1; author reply 291. 2003 - An exploratory investigation of suicide and occupational exposureEdwin van Wijngaarden
J Occup Environ Med 45:96-101. 2003..5), while the highest risk of suicide for pesticide exposure was seen between the ages of 35 and 49 years (OR = 1.5). Further investigation to replicate these findings seems warranted, using higher quality occupational data... - Suicide mortality among electriciansEdwin van Wijngaarden
Occup Environ Med 59:649; discussion 649. 2002