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Multiple myeloma and farming. A systematic review of 30 years of research. Where next?Carla Perrotta
School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin, Woodview House, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
J Occup Med Toxicol 3:27. 2008..abstract:..
trans,trans-Muconic acid excretion in relation to environmental exposure to benzenePierluigi Cocco
Occupational Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 76:456-60. 2003....
Nitrate in community water supplies and incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Sardinia, ItalyP Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health, University of Cagliari, Italy
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:510-1. 2003
Occupational risk factors for the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseP L Cocco
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari
Med Lav 94:353-63. 2003..However, as the excess among butchers and some workers in health occupations was consistent with previous reports, more indepth research is warranted to address the hypothesis...
Serum sex hormones in men occupationally exposed to dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro ethane (DDT) as young adultsPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
J Endocrinol 182:391-7. 2004....
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphism and lymphoma riskPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Tumori 93:121-3. 2007....
Reproductive outcomes in DDT applicatorsPierluigi Cocco
Occupational Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, Cagliari 09124, Italy
Environ Res 98:120-6. 2005..To explore reproductive outcomes in relation to occupational exposure to DDT...
Urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin excretion in humans during domestic exposure to 50 hertz electromagnetic fieldsPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Italy
Neuro Endocrinol Lett 26:136-42. 2005..We investigated the effects of residential exposure to ELF-EMF on the excretion of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (6-OHMS), the major melatonin metabolite, as an indicator of nocturnal melatonin secretion...
Effect of urban traffic, individual habits, and genetic polymorphisms on background urinary 1-hydroxypyrene excretionPierluigi Cocco
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Cagliari, and Divisione di Ematologia, Ospedale San Francesco, ASL 3, Nuoro, Italy
Ann Epidemiol 17:1-8. 2007....
Reproductive outcomes following environmental exposure to DDTPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Reprod Toxicol 22:5-7. 2006..The stillbirth rate, infant mortality rate, and male/female ratio in newborns were apparently unaffected following widespread but focused use of DDT in Sardinia, Italy...
Causes of death among lead smelters in relation to the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphismPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Occup Environ Med 64:414-6. 2007..Directly standardised mortality rates (sr) in the two subcohorts were also compared...
Lung cancer among silica-exposed workers: the quest for truth between chance and necessityP Cocco
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Med Lav 98:3-17. 2007..However, the IARC report itself acknowledged variations in risk depending on inherent characteristics of the crystalline silica or external factors affecting its biological activity or distribution of its polymorphs...
Plasma polychlorobiphenyl and organochlorine pesticide level and risk of major lymphoma subtypesP Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, Asse Didattico Policlinico Universitario, SS 554, Km 4, 500, 09042 Monserrato Cagliari, Italy
Occup Environ Med 65:132-40. 2008..There is conflicting epidemiological evidence concerning an increase in risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) associated with elevated blood levels of persistent organochlorine (OC) pesticides and polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs)...
Risk of malignant lymphoma following viral hepatitis infectionPierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Asse Didattico, Policlinico Universitario, SS 554, Km 4, 500, 09042, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
Int J Hematol 87:474-83. 2008..Our results confirm a role of either acute or chronic active HCV infection in lymphomagenesis. Further studies are warranted to test the hypothesis that acute infection from other hepatitis viruses might also increase lymphoma risk...
On the rumors about the silent spring. Review of the scientific evidence linking occupational and environmental pesticide exposure to endocrine disruption health effectsPierluigi Cocco
Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Dipartimento di Igiene e Sanitá Publica, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italia
Cad Saude Publica 18:379-402. 2002..On the other hand, other organochlorine pesticides and triazine herbicides require further investigation for a possible etiologic role in some hormone-dependent cancers...
Mortality from cancer of the male reproductive tract and environmental exposure to the anti-androgen p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene in the United StatesP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Oncology 55:334-9. 1998..755; 0.10 > p > 0.05). This ecologic study does not provide support to the hypothesis of a link between environmental exposure to DDT derivatives and cancer of the male reproductive tract...
Long-term health effects of the occupational exposure to DDT. A preliminary reportP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Ann N Y Acad Sci 837:246-56. 1997..Expansion of the cohort to include all applications, and collection of information to improve exposure assessment is needed to clarify these findings...
Occupational risk factors for cancer of the central nervous system: a case-control study on death certificates from 24 U.S. statesP Cocco
Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Cagliari, Italy
Am J Ind Med 33:247-55. 1998..Further work is required to investigate in more detail specific occupational exposures or possible confounders responsible for the observed associations...
Occupational lead exposure and screening of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphism: useful prevention or nonvoluntary discrimination?P Cocco
Instituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 71:148-50. 1998..To discuss regulatory guidelines excluding subjects with erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency from lead-exposed jobs in the light of epidemiology findings on the mortality of these subjects...
Lung cancer risk, silica exposure, and silicosis in Chinese mines and pottery factories: the modifying role of other workplace lung carcinogensP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, University of Cagliari, Italy
Am J Ind Med 40:674-82. 2001..Aims of our study were to explore whether and to what extent exposure to other lung carcinogens, or staging and clinical features of silicosis modify or confound the association between silica and lung cancer...
Occupational risk factors for cancer of the central nervous system (CNS) among US womenP Cocco
Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Cagliari, Italy
Am J Ind Med 36:70-4. 1999..In a recent report, we found an elevated risk of cancer of the central nervous system (CNS) in several occupations and industries, and a modest association with exposure to solvents and to contact with the public...
Cancer mortality and environmental exposure to DDE in the United StatesP Cocco
Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Environ Health Perspect 108:1-4. 2000..The association between liver cancer and DDE observed among whites, particularly in view of the occurrence of hepatic neoplasms in laboratory animals exposed to DDT, warrants further investigation...
Multifactorial aetiology of lung cancer among silica-exposed workersP Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Ann Acad Med Singapore 30:468-74. 2001..If silica acts as a human lung carcinogen depending on certain occupational exposure circumstances, perhaps those circumstances and not silica itself should be classified for their human carcinogenicity potential...
Risk of stomach cancer associated with 12 workplace hazards: analysis of death certificates from 24 states of the United States with the aid of job exposure matricesP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Occup Environ Med 56:781-7. 1999..To investigate the risk of gastric cancer associated with 12 workplace exposures suspected or discussed as aetiological agents in previous reports...
Incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease in Sardinia, Italy: 1974-1993G Broccia
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Italy
Haematologica 86:58-63. 2001..We also investigated the geographic variation in NHL risk within the region...
Mortality of lead smelter workers with the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient phenotypeP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 5:223-5. 1996....
Biological monitoring of low-level exposure to benzeneM Campagna
Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Asse didattico della Facoltà di Medicina, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
Med Lav 103:338-46. 2012..We compared the ability of the urinary excretion of trans,trans-muconic acid (t,t-MA), s-phenilmercapturic acid (s-PAMA) and urinary benzene (U-Benz) to detect low level occupational and environmental exposure to benzene...
Occupational exposure to solvents and risk of lymphoma subtypes: results from the Epilymph case-control studyP Cocco
Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Section, University of Cagliari, Asse Didattico Policlinico Universitario, SS 554, Km 4, 500, 09042 Monserrato Cagliari, Italy
Occup Environ Med 67:341-7. 2010..Objective To investigate the role of occupational exposure to organic solvents in the aetiology of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) and its major subtypes, as well as Hodgkin's lymphoma and T-cell lymphoma...
Mortality of Italian lead smelter workersP Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro Institute Occupational Medicine, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Scand J Work Environ Health 23:15-23. 1997..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health consequences of employment in the lead-smelting industry...
[Risk of major lymphoma subtypes and use of mobile phones]G Satta
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Medicina clinica e molecolare, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita di Cagliari
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 34:621-3. 2012..We explored the association between use of mobile phones and lymphoma risk in a case-control study...
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and lung cancer: a hospital based case-control studyM Pisano
Divisione di Chirurgia Toracica, Ospedale Binaghi, Cagliari, Italy
Tumori 77:12-5. 1991..This result, in line with recent reports in the literature, suggests that the genetic condition of G6PD deficiency does not provide significant protection against the development of lung cancer in humans...
Cancer mortality among men occupationally exposed to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanePierluigi Cocco
Department of Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Cancer Res 65:9588-94. 2005..In conclusion, we found little evidence for a link between occupational exposure to DDT and mortality from any of the cancers previously suggested to be associated...
Nitrate in community water supplies and risk of childhood type 1 diabetes in Sardinia, ItalySandro Muntoni
Eur J Epidemiol 21:245-7. 2006..A nitrate concentration in drinking water below 10 mg/l is unlikely to account for the spatial variation in childhood T1D incidence...
Occupational exposure to meat and risk of lymphoma: a multicenter case-control study from EuropeTina Moore
Department of Lifestyle, Environment and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Int J Cancer 121:2761-6. 2007..Occupational exposure to meat does not appear to represent an important risk factor of lymphoma, although an increased risk of specific types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cannot be excluded...
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency protects against coronary heart diseaseL Meloni
Department of Cardiovascular and Neurological Sciences, Heart Unit, University School of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
J Inherit Metab Dis 31:412-7. 2008....
Nutritional factors and worldwide incidence of childhood type 1 diabetesS Muntoni
Center for Metabolic Diseases and Atherosclerosis, Ministero dell Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, The ME DI CO Association, Cagliari, Italy
Am J Clin Nutr 71:1525-9. 2000..Some dietary factors have been associated with the risk of type 1 diabetes in childhood...
[Electrocardiogram changes in shift workers]M Meloni
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Asse Didattico, Policlinico Universitario, Monserrato
Med Lav 101:286-92. 2010....
Comparison bias and dilution effect in occupational cohort studiesStefano Parodi
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Section, Scientific Directorate, G Gaslini Children s Hospital, Genoa, Italy
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:143-52. 2007..In the two cohorts, higher risks in exposed workers emerged only after adjusting for DE and CB. Cohort studies without an internal referent group may provide unreliable results...
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and obesity: a pooled analysis from the InterLymph ConsortiumEleanor V Willett
Epidemiology and Genetics Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 122:2062-70. 2008....
Personal use of hair dye and the risk of certain subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphomaYawei Zhang
Environmental Science Division, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1321-31. 2008..1, 2.0). These results indicate that personal hair-dye use may play a role in risks of FL and CLL/SLL in women who started use before 1980 and that increased risk of FL among women who started use during or after 1980 cannot be excluded...
[Notes on sanitary surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens in work environment]Pierluigi Cocco
Med Lav 95:410-1; author reply 411. 2004
[Comments on the Report on the Environment and Health in high risk areas of Sardinia, Italy]Pierluigi Cocco
Epidemiol Prev 30:210-1; author reply 211-2. 2006
[Results of a health surveillance program for health care workers exposed to a patient affected by tuberculosis]M Meloni
Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, SS 554 Bivio Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 33:271-3. 2011..No clinical TB was observed among the exposed HCW. Comprehensive health surveillance allows to increase risk perception, compliance to HS and to reduce cost in respect to less cost-effective practices...
[Retrospective exposure assessment in occupational epidemiology: principles and methods]P Cocco
Universita di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro, Asse didattico della Facoltà di Medicina, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 32:292-4. 2010..METHODS. I will use examples from the EPILYMPH case-control study on lymphoma risk to introduce principles and methods of retrospective assessment of occupational exposures...
Classic Kaposi's sarcoma in southern Sardinia, ItalyL Atzori
Clinica Dermatologica, Universita di Cagliari, Via Ospedale 54, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Br J Cancer 91:1261-2. 2004..The first examination of classical Kaposi's sarcoma incidence in southern Sardinia (Italy) in 1998-2002 found the highest rate recorded in the island of 2.49 per 100 000 per year (standardised)...
[G6PD phenotype and red blood cell sensitivity to the oxidising action of chlorites in drinking water]A Contu
Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Igiene, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari
Ann Ig 17:509-18. 2005..However, it is still possible that more relevant changes would follow exposure to chlorites concentrations greater than that observed in the present study...
Childhood leukemia in south-west Sardinia (Italy)P Cocco
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, , Italy
Tumori 79:244-5. 1993..Other hypotheses, including a viral infection in a population with increased susceptibility, as suggested for new urban settlements, cannot be discarded...
Personal sun exposure and risk of non Hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysis from the Interlymph ConsortiumAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Int J Cancer 122:144-54. 2008..Increased recreational sun exposure may protect against NHL...
Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the InterLymph ConsortiumNathaniel Rothman
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Lancet Oncol 7:27-38. 2006..We aimed to test this hypothesis using previously unpublished data from eight European, Canadian, and US case-control studies of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)...
Influence of familial cancer history on lymphoid neoplasms risk validated in the large European case-control study epilymphRomain Casey
Registre des Hémopathies Malignes de Côte d Or, EA INSERM InVs 4T0003C, faculté de médecine de Dijon, 7 Boulevard Jeanne d Arc, 21 000 Dijon, France
Eur J Cancer 42:2570-6. 2006..Our study suggests familial aggregation of CLL with a family history of haematological cancer and of HL with a family history of lymphoma. The transmission pattern suggests a dominant model of heredity...
Hepatitis C and non-Hodgkin lymphoma among 4784 cases and 6269 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology ConsortiumSilvia de Sanjose
Unit of Infections and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Institut d Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:451-8. 2008..We pooled case-control study data to provide robust estimates of the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) subtypes after HCV infection...
Long-term lithium treatment and survival from external causes including suicideAlberto Bocchetta
J Clin Psychopharmacol 27:544-6. 2007
Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph ConsortiumKarin Ekstrom Smedby
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Blood 111:4029-38. 2008..Thus, specific autoimmune disorders are associated with NHL risk beyond the development of rare NHL subtypes in affected organs. The pattern of associations with NHL subtypes may harbor clues to lymphomagenesis...
[Assessment of congenital malformation risk in the progeny of the military and civilian personnel of the Salto di Quirra military base: preliminary results]G Satta
Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Asse Didattico, Dipartimento di Sanita Pubblica, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro Asse Didattico della Facoltà di Medicina, SS 554, Km 4, 500, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 34:599-601. 2012..We evaluated the congenital malformation rate in the progeny of the personnel of the Salto di Quirra military base in Sardinia...
Interleukin-1B (IL1B) and interleukin-6 (IL6) gene polymorphisms are associated with risk of chronic lymphocytic leukaemiaMaria G Ennas
Department of Cytomorphology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Hematol Oncol 26:98-103. 2008....
[Health surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens]Pierluigi Cocco
Med Lav 96:88. 2005
Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase deficiency as a risk factor for pterygiumEnrico Peiretti
Department of Surgical Sciences and Odontoiatry, Eye Clinic, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 51:2928-35. 2010..The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible involvement of G6PD deficiency (G6PD-) in the pathogenesis of pterygium...
[Are we physicians or corporals?]Pierluigi Cocco
Med Lav 93:120-1. 2002
