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| P J VilleneuveSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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Intensive hog farming operations and self-reported health among nearby rural residents in Ottawa, CanadaPaul J Villeneuve
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada
BMC Public Health 9:330. 2009..This study evaluates the health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and the prevalence of respiratory conditions among adults and children who lived in proximity to this farm...
Cancer incidence among Canadian kidney transplant recipientsP J Villeneuve
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Am J Transplant 7:941-8. 2007..Our findings underscore the need for increased vigilance among kidney transplant recipients for cancers at sites where there are no population-based screening programs in place...- Radon and lung cancer risk: an extension of the mortality follow-up of the Newfoundland fluorspar cohortPaul J Villeneuve
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Health Phys 92:157-69. 2007.... - Leukemia in electric utility workers: the evaluation of alternative indices of exposure to 60 Hz electric and magnetic fieldsP J Villeneuve
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Ind Med 37:607-17. 2000..Although exposure to both 60 Hz electric and magnetic fields can be characterized in many ways, to date, risk assessment has been performed by using only a limited number of exposure indices... - A case-control study of childhood leukemia in southern Ontario, Canada, and exposure to magnetic fields in residencesL M Green
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
Int J Cancer 82:161-70. 1999..50, 95% CI = 1.14-5.49). Our findings did not support an association between leukemia and proximity to power lines with high current configuration... 
The incidence of cancer in a population-based cohort of Canadian heart transplant recipientsY Jiang
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Am J Transplant 10:637-45. 2010..There is an excess of incident cases of cancer among heart transplant recipients. The relative excesses are most marked for NHL, oral and lung cancer...- Is outdoor air pollution associated with physician visits for allergic rhinitis among the elderly in Toronto, Canada?P J Villeneuve
Air Health Effects Division, Environmental Contaminants Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Allergy 61:750-8. 2006..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between outdoor air pollution and physician visits for allergic rhinitis among individuals>or=65 years of age in Toronto, Canada... - Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among electric utility workers in Ontario: the evaluation of alternate indices of exposure to 60 Hz electric and magnetic fieldsP J Villeneuve
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occup Environ Med 57:249-57. 2000..To examine associations between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and exposures to 60 Hz magnetic and electric fields in electric utility workers with a series of indices that capture a variety of aspects of field strength... - Physical activity, anthropometric factors and risk of pancreatic cancer: results from the Canadian enhanced cancer surveillance systemA J Hanley
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, 850 600 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5, Canada
Int J Cancer 94:140-7. 2001..06). Our findings support the hypothesis that insulin resistance is an etiologic factor in the development of pancreatic neoplasms among men and possibly women... - Acute effects of outdoor air pollution on forced expiratory volume in 1 s: a panel study of schoolchildren with asthmaR Dales
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Eur Respir J 34:316-23. 2009..Of the pollutants measured, PM(2.5 )appears to be the most important... - Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study, part II: sensitivity analysisD Krewski
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute for Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Inhal Toxicol 17:343-53. 2005..Overall, this extensive sensitivity analysis both supported the conclusions reached by the original investigators and demonstrated the robustness of these conclusions to alternative analytic approaches... - Weather and emergency room visits for migraine headaches in Ottawa, CanadaP J Villeneuve
Air Health Effects Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Headache 46:64-72. 2006..These results should be interpreted cautiously as some comparisons are based on a small number of cases, and ER visits for migraine may represent a highly selective group of patients who suffer from this condition... - Cancer incidence in a cohort of Ontario and Quebec women having bilateral breast augmentationJacques Brisson
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Laval, QC, Canada
Int J Cancer 118:2854-62. 2006..subglandular), fill (saline vs. silicone) or envelope (polyurethane-coated or not). In conclusion, women undergoing cosmetic breast augmentation do not appear to be at an increased long-term risk of developing cancer... - Reduction in injection-related HIV risk after 6 months in a low-threshold methadone treatment programPeggy Millson
HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
AIDS Educ Prev 19:124-36. 2007..Our findings suggest that low-threshold MMT programs can reduce the risk of HIV without the enforcement of abstinence-based policies... - Determinants of health-related quality of life of opiate users at entry to low-threshold methadone programsPeggy Millson
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Eur Addict Res 12:74-82. 2006..The aim of this study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of factors associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among opiate users at entry to low-threshold methadone treatment... - Self-perceived health among Canadian opiate users: a comparison to the general population and to other chronic disease populationsPeggy E Millson
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, ON
Can J Public Health 95:99-103. 2004.... - Environmental tobacco smoke and the risk of pancreatic cancer: findings from a Canadian population-based case-control studyPaul J Villeneuve
Epistream Consulting Inc, Ottawa, ON
Can J Public Health 95:32-7. 2004..We investigated the relationship between pancreatic cancer and childhood and adult exposure to ETS using a case-control study design... - Brain cancer and occupational exposure to magnetic fields among men: results from a Canadian population-based case-control studyPaul J Villeneuve
Environmental Risk Assessment and Case Surveillance Division, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2
Int J Epidemiol 31:210-7. 2002..Emphasis was placed on examining the variations in risk across different histological types... - Coronary heart disease mortality and radon exposure in the Newfoundland fluorspar miners' cohort, 1950-2001Paul J Villeneuve
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Radiat Environ Biophys 46:291-6. 2007..These findings are consistent with those recently reported by Kreuzer and colleagues. We share their view that uncontrolled confounding for other coronary heart disease risk factors hinders the interpretation of the risk estimates... - Associations between outdoor air pollution and emergency department visits for stroke in Edmonton, CanadaPaul J Villeneuve
Air Health Effects Division, Environmental Contaminants Bureau, Health Canada, 269 Laurier Ave W 3rd Floor, 3 022 PL4903C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0K9
Eur J Epidemiol 21:689-700. 2006..20 (95% CI = 1.00-1.43). Our results suggest it is possible that vehicular traffic, which produces increased levels of NO(2) and CO, contributes to an increased incidence of emergency department visits for stroke... - Mortality among Canadian women with cosmetic breast implantsPaul J Villeneuve
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 164:334-41. 2006..Findings suggest that breast implants do not directly increase mortality in women. Further work is needed to evaluate risk factors for suicide among women who undergo elective cosmetic surgery... - Fine particulate air pollution and all-cause mortality within the Harvard Six-Cities Study: variations in risk by period of exposurePaul J Villeneuve
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 12:568-76. 2002..The RR of mortality associated with PM(2.5) did not depend on when exposure occurred in relation to death, possibly because of little variation between the time-dependent city-specific exposure indices... - The influence of ambient coarse particulate matter on asthma hospitalization in children: case-crossover and time-series analysesMei Lin
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
Environ Health Perspect 110:575-81. 2002..For the most part, relative risk estimates from the unidirectional case-crossover analysis were more pronounced compared with both bidirectional case-crossover and time-series analyses... - Frequency of emergency room visits for childhood asthma in Ottawa, Canada: the role of weatherPaul J Villeneuve
Air Health Effects Division, Health Canada, 2nd Floor, Room 2042, 400 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0K9
Int J Biometeorol 50:48-56. 2005..77) relative to summer periods with no activity. Models that incorporate calendar and meteorological data may help emergency departments to more efficiently allocate resources needed to treat children presenting with respiratory distress... - Screening for colorectal cancer using the fecal occult blood test: an actuarial assessment of the impact of a population-based screening program in CanadaPaul J Villeneuve
Epistream Consulting Inc, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 19:715-23. 2003..Additional information on the natural history of the disease, and Canadian pilot data are needed to better model the effectiveness of population-based FOB screening programs... - A time-series study of air pollution, socioeconomic status, and mortality in Vancouver, CanadaPaul J Villeneuve
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 13:427-35. 2003..However, these results should be interpreted cautiously due to the small number of deaths observed within each stratum of socioeconomic status... - Cognitive dysfunction after total knee arthroplasty: effects of intraoperative cerebral embolization and postoperative complicationsRosendo A Rodriguez
Cardiac Division, Department of Anesthesia, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Arthroplasty 20:763-71. 2005..All cognitively impaired patients at 3 months had complications (17% in the nondeficit group). This raises the possibility that postoperative complications might be associated with cognitive dysfunction in TKA patients...