Mina Ha

Summary

Affiliation: Dankook University
Country: Korea

Publications

  1. ncbi Does resting for two consecutive days enable complete recovery from night work?
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
    Am J Hypertens 21:730-1. 2008
  2. ncbi Smoking cigarettes before first childbirth and risk of breast cancer
    Mina Ha
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:55-61. 2007
  3. ncbi Incidence of cancer in the vicinity of Korean AM radio transmitters
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Chungnam, Korea
    Arch Environ Health 58:756-62. 2003
  4. ncbi Shiftwork and metabolic risk factors of cardiovascular disease
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, san29 Anseo Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam 330714, Korea
    J Occup Health 47:89-95. 2005
  5. ncbi Mercury levels in maternal and cord blood and attained weight through the 24 months of life
    Byung Mi Kim
    Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Center, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Sci Total Environ 410:26-33. 2011
  6. ncbi Interaction between GSTM1/GSTT1 polymorphism and blood mercury on birth weight
    Bo Eun Lee
    Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Woman s University, Seoul, Korea
    Environ Health Perspect 118:437-43. 2010
  7. ncbi Association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure of children and parental socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study in Korea
    Okhee Yi
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
    Nicotine Tob Res 14:607-15. 2012
  8. ncbi Effect of environmental tobacco smoke on atopic dermatitis among children in Korea
    Okhee Yi
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, San 29 Anseo Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam 330 714, Republic of Korea
    Environ Res 113:40-5. 2012
  9. ncbi [BTEX exposure and its health effects in pregnant women following the Hebei Spirit oil spill]
    Byung Mi Kim
    Department of Preventive Medicine, BK21 Research Division for Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea
    J Prev Med Public Health 42:96-103. 2009
  10. ncbi Obesity and risk of cancer in postmenopausal Korean women
    Yun Mi Song
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Chungnam, South Korea
    J Clin Oncol 26:3395-402. 2008

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Publications34

  1. ncbi Does resting for two consecutive days enable complete recovery from night work?
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
    Am J Hypertens 21:730-1. 2008
  2. ncbi Smoking cigarettes before first childbirth and risk of breast cancer
    Mina Ha
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:55-61. 2007
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  3. ncbi Incidence of cancer in the vicinity of Korean AM radio transmitters
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Chungnam, Korea
    Arch Environ Health 58:756-62. 2003
    ..Future studies should incorporate additional detailed exposure assessments and a strong analytical study design to explore the possible association between radiofrequency radiation from AM radio transmitters and cancer...
  4. ncbi Shiftwork and metabolic risk factors of cardiovascular disease
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, san29 Anseo Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam 330714, Korea
    J Occup Health 47:89-95. 2005
    ..These results suggest an association between shift work duration and the metabolic risk factors of cardiovascular disease...
  5. ncbi Mercury levels in maternal and cord blood and attained weight through the 24 months of life
    Byung Mi Kim
    Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Center, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Sci Total Environ 410:26-33. 2011
    ..Therefore, efforts should be made to reduce the mercury level in the maternal blood at late pregnancy and cord blood. Further research on the possible harmful effects of prenatal mercury exposure on postnatal growth is recommended...
  6. ncbi Interaction between GSTM1/GSTT1 polymorphism and blood mercury on birth weight
    Bo Eun Lee
    Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Woman s University, Seoul, Korea
    Environ Health Perspect 118:437-43. 2010
    ..Mercury (Hg) is toxic to both the reproductive and nervous systems. In addition, glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), which conjugate glutathione to a variety of electrophilic compounds, are involved in the detoxification of Hg...
  7. ncbi Association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure of children and parental socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study in Korea
    Okhee Yi
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
    Nicotine Tob Res 14:607-15. 2012
    ..We estimated the independent and interactive effects of parental SES and residential area SES on ETS exposure of children at home...
  8. ncbi Effect of environmental tobacco smoke on atopic dermatitis among children in Korea
    Okhee Yi
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, San 29 Anseo Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam 330 714, Republic of Korea
    Environ Res 113:40-5. 2012
    ..06, 95% CI: 1.01-4.22). In conclusion, our results show that childhood exposure to ETS is a major risk factor for atopic dermatitis...
  9. ncbi [BTEX exposure and its health effects in pregnant women following the Hebei Spirit oil spill]
    Byung Mi Kim
    Department of Preventive Medicine, BK21 Research Division for Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea
    J Prev Med Public Health 42:96-103. 2009
    ..We evaluated the health effects of exposure to BTEX (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, m,p-Xylene, o-Xylene) in the Taean area after the Hebei Spirit oil spill...
  10. ncbi Obesity and risk of cancer in postmenopausal Korean women
    Yun Mi Song
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Chungnam, South Korea
    J Clin Oncol 26:3395-402. 2008
    ..To evaluate an association between obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI; kg/m(2)), and risk of cancer at individual and all sites in postmenopausal women...
  11. ncbi The Mothers and Children's Environmental Health (MOCEH) study
    Byung Mi Kim
    Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Center, Ewha Womans University, 911 1 Mok 6 dong, Yangcheon Gu, Seoul, Korea
    Eur J Epidemiol 24:573-83. 2009
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  12. ncbi Serum total cholesterol and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal Korean women
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, South Korea
    Cancer Causes Control 20:1055-60. 2009
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  13. ncbi Urinary metabolites before and after cleanup and subjective symptoms in volunteer participants in cleanup of the Hebei Spirit oil spill
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
    Sci Total Environ 429:167-73. 2012
    ..Our goal in this study was to examine the exposure status and acute health effects on volunteers that participated in the oil spill cleanup...
  14. ncbi International study of factors affecting human chromosome translocations
    Alice J Sigurdson
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Mutat Res 652:112-21. 2008
    ..Our data provide stable estimates of background TF by age, gender, race, and smoking status and suggest an acceleration of chromosome damage above age 60 and among those with a history of smoking cigarettes...
  15. ncbi Radio-frequency radiation exposure from AM radio transmitters and childhood leukemia and brain cancer
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, and Department of Occupational Medicine, Hallym University Hospital, Anyang, South Korea
    Am J Epidemiol 166:270-9. 2007
    ..39 (95% CI: 1.04, 1.86) and 1.59 (95% CI: 1.19, 2.11) for children in the second and third quartiles, respectively, versus the lowest quartile. Brain cancer and infantile cancer were not associated with AM RFR...
  16. ncbi [A literature review on health effects of exposure to oil spill]
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Korea
    J Prev Med Public Health 41:345-54. 2008
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  17. ncbi Low blood levels of lead and mercury and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity in children: a report of the children's health and environment research (CHEER)
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Republic of Korea
    Neurotoxicology 30:31-6. 2009
    ..The goal of this study was to examine the association between low levels of lead and mercury in blood and symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among Korean children...
  18. ncbi Transferrin in korean children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Ho Jang Kwon
    Environmental Health Center, Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, Korea
    Psychiatry Investig 8:366-71. 2011
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  19. ncbi Maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, GSTM1/T1 polymorphisms and oxidative stress
    Eun Young Park
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Reprod Toxicol 26:197-202. 2008
    ..In addition, maternal genetic polymorphisms of GSTM1 and GSTT1 may modify the oxidative stress by maternal exposure to ETS...
  20. ncbi Occupational radiation doses among diagnostic radiation workers in South Korea, 1996-2006
    Won Jin Lee
    Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Radiat Prot Dosimetry 136:50-5. 2009
    ..More intensive monitoring of occupational radiation exposure and investigation into its health effects on diagnostic radiation workers are required in South Korea...
  21. ncbi Long-term storage and recovery of buccal cell DNA from treated cards
    Alice J Sigurdson
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS 7092, MSC 7238, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7238, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:385-8. 2006
    ..Using these methods, treated cards did not consistently provide sufficient quantities of buccal cell gDNA after 7 years of storage for genotyping or WGA...
  22. ncbi Estimation of the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome in Korea: using the capture-recapture method
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:138-42. 2004
    ..The 95% confidence interval for estimated total number of patients ranged from 642 to 1522. The estimated rate of SIDS cases was 0.56 per 1000 live births per annum, which is similar to the incidence in the USA or Japan...
  23. ncbi Healthy Twin: a twin-family study of Korea--protocols and current status
    Joohon Sung
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Korea
    Twin Res Hum Genet 9:844-8. 2006
    ..We report study protocols and zygosity and the distribution of family size of the study participants...
  24. ncbi [Psychological health in residents participating in clean-up works of Hebei Spirit oil spill]
    Minkyo Song
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea
    J Prev Med Public Health 42:82-8. 2009
    ..Our objective was to examine and evaluate the psychological health of the residents of Taean during the cleanup of the Hebei Spirit (HS) oil spill and to review some factors associated with the results...
  25. ncbi Ecological study on residences in the vicinity of AM radio broadcasting towers and cancer death: preliminary observations in Korea
    Sue Kyung Park
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Konkuk University College of Medicine, Chungju, South Korea
    Int Arch Occup Environ Health 77:387-94. 2004
    ..Although these findings do not prove a causal link between cancer and RF exposure from AM radio broadcasting towers, it does suggest that further analytical studies on this topic are needed in Korea...
  26. ncbi Body mass index and mortality in middle-aged Korean women
    Yun Mi Song
    Department of Family Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, and Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea
    Ann Epidemiol 17:556-63. 2007
    ..We sought to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in Korean women and to determine whether the association differs depending on menopausal status...
  27. ncbi Subjective fatigue and stress hormone levels in urine according to duration of shiftwork
    Jungsun Park
    Department of Safety Management and Policy Research, Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Incheon, Republic of Korea
    J Occup Health 48:446-50. 2006
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  28. ncbi Influence of GSTM1 genotype on association between aromatic DNA adducts and urinary PAH metabolites in incineration workers
    Jeongmi Lee
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon Dong, Chongno Gu, 110 799, Seoul, South Korea
    Mutat Res 514:213-21. 2002
    ..These results remain to be confirmed in future larger studies...
  29. ncbi [Correlates of self-rated fatigue in Korean employees]
    Sei Jin Chang
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute of Occupational Medicine, Yonsei University
    J Prev Med Pub Health 38:71-81. 2005
    ..g.: work demand, decision latitude) to fatigue...
  30. ncbi [Epidemiology of psychosocial distress in Korean employees]
    Sei Jin Chang
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute of Occupational Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine
    J Prev Med Pub Health 38:25-37. 2005
    ..It is strongly required that worksite stress reduction programs should be established in at both occupational and level as well as in individual levels...
  31. ncbi Do we need more twin studies? The Healthy Twin Study, Korea
    Joohon Sung
    Int J Epidemiol 35:488-90. 2006
  32. ncbi [Public perceptions of the risk of Asian dust storms in Seoul and its metropolitan area]
    Hyoung-June Im
    Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital Department of Occupational Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine
    J Prev Med Pub Health 39:205-12. 2006
    ..To fill the gap of the public's perceptions of the risk and the objective evidence of its health effects, more studies about its health effects and the methods to reduce exposure are required...
  33. ncbi Multiple biomarkers study in painters in a shipyard in Korea
    Kyoung Ho Lee
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, SNUMRC, 28 Yongon Dong, Chongno Gu, Seoul 110 799, South Korea
    Mutat Res 540:89-98. 2003
    ..These results suggest that painters in the shipyard were exposed to significant amounts of PAHs and possibly to other genotoxic aromatic compounds, and that urinary 1-OHPG may be a potential biomarker of PAH exposure in this population...
  34. ncbi Glycophorin A mutant frequency in radiation workers at the nuclear power plants and a hospital
    Mina Ha
    Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Chung-Nam, Chun-An, South Korea
    Mutat Res 501:45-56. 2002
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