P Levallois

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between maternal exposure to chlorination by-products and the risk of delivering a small for-gestational-age (SGA) neonate...

..In this study we evaluated the association between farming activities, precipitation and AGI...

..This study demonstrates the importance of considering water distribution intake in very young infants who may be particularly susceptible to water contaminants...

..Incentive might be necessary to improve participation rate and data collection methods must also be simplified. A 24-h recall plus a 1-day diary seem sufficient and data on consumption could be limited to liquids, soups and cereals...

..However, risk perception was not sufficient to explain the characteristics of people reporting this disorder...

..It appears that the so-called hypersensitivity to environmental electric and magnetic fields is an unclear health problem whose nature has yet to be determined...

..Chronic residential exposure to magnetic fields from high-power lines may accentuate the decrease in melatonin secretion observed in some vulnerable subgroups of the population...

..002) and this relation was not modified by vitamin intake. We conclude that nitrate intake is not related to nitrosamine excretion in this rural population. The influence of coffee consumption on NPIP excretion deserves further attention...

..Better predictors of endogenous nitrate production are needed to improve our ability to model nitrate body burden and estimate associated health risks...

..9% vs 34.5%, p < 0.001. This study demonstrates that there is still need for public health education on the uses of fluorides...

..Finally, it illustrates the usefulness of GIS to focus public health interventions...

..Although limited due to its small sample size, the present study seems to demonstrate the usefulness of considering different indexes of exposure when assessing residential exposure to 60 Hz magnetic fields...

..Our results suggest that, in rural Quebec, bacterial and parasitic enteric infections in young children may be zoonoses related to environmental risk factors and especially cattle production...

..30, p < .001). A significant proportion of reproductive-age women had lead and mercury concentrations that exceeded those that have been reportedly associated with subtle neurodevelopmental deficits in other populations...

..We conclude that livestock farming intensity may be linked to bacterial acute gastroenteritis in children...

..43). Blood cadmium increased with age and smoking (R2 = 0.61). No influence of mine residues was observed among residents of Oujé-Bougoumou, but lifestyle exposure associations were noted for both communities...

..However, for newborns with low birth weight, mean TSH level was significantly higher among those exposed to ClO2 than for those in the reference group...

..More studies with long-term exposure measures and large enough to evaluate leukemia subtypes are needed to further understanding of the issue...

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..38 microT for the measured geometric mean. The present study shows good agreement between the measured MF exposure of an individual inside a house near a 735 kV line and the MF exposure calculated using a statistical model...

..This impact appears to be strongly associated with residual chlorine levels. The study also confirms the importance of socio-economic characteristics of consumers on their perception of drinking water quality...

..Data indicate that for this range of exposure the safety margin appears therefore considerable with respect to the potential carcinogenic effect of household exposure to CHCl3...

..The results used in the portrait of CDBP behavior are also relevant in terms of exposure assessment for future epidemiological studies on human reproductive outcomes in the region...

..Risk was not higher with recent exposure, using time-window-exposure analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Regular long-term ETS exposure may be a risk factor for chronic lymphocytic leukemia...

..Some recommendations to improve the system were formulated even though the system already seems to be useful for the surveillance of waterborne enteric diseases...

..CONCLUSIONS: Our study contributes to the accumulating evidence linking AML and active smoking, and provides some evidence that obesity increases the risk of most of the adult leukemia subtypes...