Epidemiologic studies of human semen quality: considerations for study designBarbara A Cohn
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:664-71. 2002
..Adaptation of the design to anticipate and mitigate bias and to maximize efficiency can yield scientifically sound information. Recommendations for study designs are discussed...
- Placental characteristics and reduced risk of maternal breast cancer
B A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 93:1133-40. 2001
..We examined whether other markers of reduced placental size or function, including increased blood pressure during pregnancy, predict a reduction in maternal breast cancer...
- The National DES Education Program: effectiveness of the California Health Provider Intervention
Barbara A Cohn
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
J Cancer Educ 17:40-5. 2002
..The authors report results of an intervention to increase health care providers' awareness of preventive care for women exposed to DES before birth...
- DDT and DDE exposure in mothers and time to pregnancy in daughters
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, 1683 Shattuck Avenue, Suite B, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Lancet 361:2205-6. 2003
..The decreased fecundability associated with prenatal p,p'-DDT remains unexplained. We speculate that the antiandrogenic activity of p,p'-DDE may mitigate harmful androgen effects on the ovary during gestation or early life...
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure in mothers and time to pregnancy in daughtersBarbara A Cohn
The Center for Research on Women and Children s Health, The Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, United States
Reprod Toxicol 31:290-6. 2011
..This study demonstrates, for the first time, that developmental exposure to PCBs may disrupt pregnancy in humans...
Maternal smoking, alcohol, and coffee use during pregnancy and son's risk of testicular cancerMorgana L Mongraw-Chaffin
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Alcohol 43:241-5. 2009
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- DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1406-14. 2007
..Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned...
- Assaying organochlorines in archived serum for a large, long-term cohort: implications of combining assay results from multiple laboratories over time
Robert I Sholtz
Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Environ Int 37:709-14. 2011
..For PCB congeners with very low levels, findings caution against pooling of assays without further exploration...
- Prenatal DDT exposure and testicular cancer: a nested case-control study
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 65:127-34. 2010
..Whether these associations could be direct, or operate via other pathways is unknown. Further research on interindividual differences in DDT metabolism could provide clues to testicular cancer etiology...
- Developmental and environmental origins of breast cancer: DDT as a case study
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, United States
Reprod Toxicol 31:302-11. 2011
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- The Pine River statement: human health consequences of DDT use
Brenda Eskenazi
School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1359-67. 2009
..To better inform current policy, we reviewed epidemiologic studies published from 2003 to 2008 that investigated the human health consequences of DDT and/or DDE (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene) exposure...
- Preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease death: prospective evidence from the child health and development studies cohort
Morgana L Mongraw-Chaffin
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, Calif 94709, USA
Hypertension 56:166-71. 2010
..Additionally, women with preeclampsia earlier in pregnancy may be particularly at risk for cardiovascular disease death and could be targeted for early and intensive screening and intervention...
- Menstrual irregularity and cardiovascular mortality
Erica T Wang
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 96:E114-8. 2011
..However, there are limited prospective studies confirming the link between polycystic ovary syndrome and cardiovascular mortality...
- Maternal smoking, alcohol consumption, and caffeine consumption during pregnancy in relation to a son's risk of persistent cryptorchidism: a prospective study in the Child Health and Development Studies cohort, 1959-1967
Morgana L Mongraw-Chaffin
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley 94709, CA
Am J Epidemiol 167:257-61. 2008
..Other maternal and perinatal risk factors were not significantly associated with persistent cryptorchidism and did not confound the association with caffeine...
- Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners measured shortly after giving birth and subsequent risk of maternal breast cancer before age 50
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, 1683 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 136:267-75. 2012
..It remains unclear whether individual differences in exposure, response to exposure, or both explain risk patterns observed...
- Sex steroid hormones in young manhood and the risk of subsequent prostate cancer: a longitudinal study in African-Americans and Caucasians (United States)
Chiaojung J Tsai
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room T204, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:1237-44. 2006
..The absence of this association in African-Americans needs confirmation in other data involving larger numbers of African-Americans...
- Prostate specific antigen levels in young adulthood predict prostate cancer risk: results from a cohort of Black and White Americans
Alice S Whittemore
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5405, USA
J Urol 174:872-6; discussion 876. 2005
..Little is known about PSA distribution in young adulthood, when benign and malignant prostatic diseases are rare, or about how PSA within the normal range in youth relates to subsequent prostate cancer risk...
