Isabelle Baldi

..Currently, a better statistical validity is reached with cohort studies. In 2005, France initiated a large-scale cohort, "AGRIGAN", including 175,000 subjects...

..These results suggest the presence of neurologic impairments in elderly persons who were exposed occupationally to pesticides...

..Our results support the hypothesis of an association between occupational pesticide exposure and PD and point to the need to investigate the role of fungicides, for which toxicological hypotheses exist...

..With additional information of frequency and duration of use, they will enable to develop exposure indices usable in epidemiological studies on farmers' health...

..65% in subjects 85 and over. The increase in the incidence rates we observed may have several explanations: not only improvements in registration, diagnosis, and clinical practice, but also changes in potential risk factors...

..99, 95% CI 0.86-10.40). These data suggest that occupational or residential exposure to ELF may play a role in the occurrence of meningioma...

..The aim of the PHYTONER study is to investigate the role of pesticides on neurobehavioral performances in French vineyard workers...

..Given the frequency of pesticide use and the potential disabilities resulting from cognitive impairments, further toxicologic and epidemiologic research is needed to confirm these results and assess the impact on public health...

..Types of equipment influenced significantly the daily contamination, whereas personal protective equipment only resulted in a limited decrease of contamination...

..Brain tumours are often disabling and rapidly lethal; their aetiology is largely unknown. Among potential risk factors, pesticides are suspected...

..7 per 100,000 for 20-29 years of age to 33.4 per 100,000 for 70-79 years of age) and reduced thereafter for gliomas. Our estimation of the incidence of CNS tumors ranks high among the earlier reports. Further analytic studies are ongoing...

..To date, the etiology of primary tumors of the central nervous system (mainly gliomas and meningiomas) is poorly understood. The role of sex hormones has been suggested, based on clinical, experimental, biological, and epidemiological data...

..Indicators of air pollution were the mean concentration...

..PD patients were significantly less frequently ever-smokers than controls and the same tendency was observed for MSA patients. We also described the clinical features that heralded the disease among this nonselected population...

..4-15.3]. These results contribute to the efforts made to understand how air pollution promotes adverse health effects and to identify susceptible subgroups...

..Air pollution has been linked to increased rates of mortality, but little is known about individual characteristics related to the increase in risk...

..For instance, in asthmatics, the numbers of deaths due to respiratory disease and cancer appeared excessive. The present study suggests that asthmatics exhibit a higher risk of mortality...

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..Imputation of an individual cancer to occupational or other causes is, however, difficult. A method based on the Bayes theorem is proposed for assessing causal relationships at the individual level...

..Applying these methods, a plasma toxicokinetic study of folpet in rats after intratracheal administration of Folpan 80WG showed that inhalation of folpet could be a route of exposure with an important systemic absorption...

..Those levels could be used to study the impact of the air pollution on long-term mortality on populations living in the areas considered...

..The general aim of the AMI cohort was to study health and aging in elderly farmers living in rural area through a multidisciplinary approach, with a main focus on dementia...

..Pesticide safety education is necessary in order to induce protective behavior among agricultural workers. The general population may also benefit from increasing their awareness regarding pesticides...

..Pesticides are widely used toxics. The objective of the study is to evaluate the odds of exposure to pesticides in chronic bronchitis patients...

..To evaluate the odds of being exposed to pesticides in asthmatic adults...