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| Misty J HeinSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Evaluating bias from birth-cohort effects in the age-based cox proportional hazards modelMisty J Hein
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Epidemiology 22:249-56. 2011..When the analysis included an adjustment for birth cohort, the inclusion of lagged-out cases and controls (assigned a lagged exposure of zero) did not introduce bias...
Follow-up study of chrysotile textile workers: cohort mortality and exposure-responseMisty J Hein
Industrywide Studies Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Occup Environ Med 64:616-25. 2007..This report provides an update of the mortality experience of a cohort of South Carolina asbestos textile workers...
Issues when modeling benzene, toluene, and xylene exposures using a literature databaseMisty J Hein
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 5:36-47. 2008....- Bias from matching on age at death or censor in nested case-control studiesMisty J Hein
Division of Surveillance, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Epidemiology 20:330-8. 2009.... - Statistical modeling of occupational chlorinated solvent exposures for case-control studies using a literature-based databaseMisty J Hein
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 54:459-72. 2010.... - Pesticide dose estimates for children of Iowa farmers and non-farmersBrian D Curwin
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS R 14, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Environ Res 105:307-15. 2007..Doses were similar for male and female children. A trend of decreasing dose with increasing age was observed for chlorpyrifos... - Cause-specific mortality among a cohort of U.S. flight attendantsLynne E Pinkerton
Industrywide Studies Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Am J Ind Med 55:25-36. 2012..We evaluated mortality among 11,311 former U.S. flight attendants. The primary a priori outcomes of interest were breast cancer and melanoma... - Mortality and exposure response among 14,458 electrical capacitor manufacturing workers exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)Mary M Prince
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1508-14. 2006..This is the first PCB cohort showing a strong exposure-response relationship for prostate cancer mortality... - Exposure to o-toluidine, aniline, and nitrobenzene in a rubber chemical manufacturing plant: a retrospective exposure assessment updateKevin W Hanley
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Industrywide Studies Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 9:478-90. 2012..The exposure assessment revisions and rank estimates will be used to analyze the updated bladder cancer incidence data... - Update of the NIOSH life table analysis system: a person-years analysis program for the windows computing environmentMary K Schubauer-Berigan
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Industrywide Studies Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Am J Ind Med 54:915-24. 2011..Users may export stratified data for Poisson regression modeling. CONCLUSIONS: LTAS.NET incorporates improvements that will facilitate more complex person-years analysis of occupational cohort data... - Monitoring microbial populations on wide-body commercial passenger aircraftLauralynn Taylor McKernan
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 52:139-49. 2008..Overall, our research demonstrates that the bacteria recovered on observed flights were either common skin-surface organisms (primarily gram-positive cocci) or organisms common in dust and outdoor air... - Comparison of air sampling methods for aerosolized spores of B. anthracis SterneCheryl Fairfield Estill
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 8:179-86. 2011..Estimated detection limits ranged from 35 to 39 particles/m³. These results will enable investigators to conduct environmental sampling, quantify contamination levels, and conduct risk assessments of B. anthracis... - Assessing total fungal concentrations on commercial passenger aircraft using mixed-effects modelingLauralynn Taylor McKernan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 5:48-58. 2008..0001). On the aircraft, the majority of total fungal exposure occurred during the boarding and deplaning processes, when the aircraft utilized ancillary ventilation and passenger activity was at its peak... - Update: cohort mortality study of workers highly exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) during the manufacture of electrical capacitors, 1940-1998Mary M Prince
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, Industrywide Studies Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Environ Health 5:13. 2006.... - Comparison of immunoassay and HPLC-MS/MS used to measure urinary metabolites of atrazine, metolachlor, and chlorpyrifos from farmers and non-farmers in IowaBrian D Curwin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 20:205-12. 2010..0015-0.0039 microg l(-1), 0.12-0.16 microg l(-1), and 2.9-3.0 microg l(-1), respectively. Immunoassays tend to be cheaper and faster than HPLC-MS/MS, however, they may result in an upward bias of urinary pesticide metabolite levels... - The Upper Midwest Health Study: gliomas and occupational exposure to chlorinated solventsAvima M Ruder
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Occup Environ Med 70:73-80. 2013..Individuals with functional GST genes might convert chlorinated solvents crossing the blood-brain barrier into cytotoxic metabolites... - Neurodegenerative causes of death among retired National Football League playersEverett J Lehman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Neurology 79:1970-4. 2012..To analyze neurodegenerative causes of death, specifically Alzheimer disease (AD), Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), among a cohort of professional football players... - Occupational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and risk of breast cancerSharon R Silver
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:276-82. 2009..Despite the endocrine system activity exhibited by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), recent studies have shown little association between PCB exposure and breast cancer mortality... - Biological exposure assessment to tetrachloroethylene for workers in the dry cleaning industryLauralynn T McKernan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, R 15, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Environ Health 7:12. 2008..The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of conducting biological tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene, PCE) exposure assessments of dry cleaning employees in conjunction with evaluation of possible PCE health effects... - Assessment of occupational cosmic radiation exposure of flight attendants using questionnaire dataJeri L Anderson
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 82:1049-54. 2011..As part of a forthcoming study of breast and other cancer incidence, occupational cosmic radiation exposure of a cohort of female flight attendants was estimated... - Development of historical exposure estimates of cosmic radiation and circadian rhythm disruption for cohort studies of Pan Am flight attendantsMartha A Waters
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Am J Ind Med 52:751-61. 2009..Methods exist to calculate cosmic radiation effective doses on individual flights; however, only work histories which provided an employee's domicile (home base) history rather than a record of every flight flown were available... - Proportionate mortality study of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting IndustryEverett J Lehman
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Am J Ind Med 51:950-63. 2008..This study examined causes of deaths among unionized plumbers, pipefitters and allied trades... - Mortality of workers employed in shoe manufacturing: an updateEverett J Lehman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Industrywide Studies Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:535-46. 2006..An original study did not detect elevated leukemia mortality but did detect increased lung cancer mortality. The present study is an update of the mortality of the original cohort... - Inter-rater reliability of assessed prenatal maternal occupational exposures to solvents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metalsCarissa M Rocheleau
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 8:718-28. 2011..92) in the second job set. Inter-rater reliability varied by exposure agent and prevalence, demonstrating the importance of measuring reliability in studies using a multiple expert rater method of exposure assessment... - Body mass index, playing position, race, and the cardiovascular mortality of retired professional football playersSherry L Baron
Surveillance Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Am J Cardiol 109:889-96. 2012.... - Mortality among workers exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in an electrical capacitor manufacturing plant in Indiana: an updateAvima M Ruder
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:18-23. 2006..Melanoma mortality was not associated with estimated cumulative exposure. Brain cancer mortality did not demonstrate a clear dose-response relationship with estimated cumulative exposure... - Increased bladder cancer risk among workers exposed to o-toluidine and aniline: a reanalysisTania Carreon
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Occup Environ Med 67:348-50. 2010..As additional information showed that workers in certain departments had been misclassified regarding o-toluidine exposure, we therefore conducted a reanalysis of the data using updated exposure categories... - Nicotine exposure and decontamination on tobacco harvesters' handsBrian D Curwin
Industrywide Studies Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway MSR 14, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 49:407-13. 2005..012). A substantial amount of nicotine was transferred to the hands, but washing with soap and water in the field significantly reduced nicotine levels by an average of 96% (P < 0.0001)... - Urinary and hand wipe pesticide levels among farmers and nonfarmers in IowaBrian D Curwin
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 15:500-8. 2005..The majority of the hand wipe samples were nondetectable. However, detection of atrazine in the hand wipes was significantly associated with urinary levels of atrazine above the median (P-value <0.01)... - Pesticide contamination inside farm and nonfarm homesBrian D Curwin
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS R 14, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 2:357-67. 2005..These herbicides are not applied in or around the home but they appear to be getting into the home para-occupationally. For agricultural pesticides, take-home exposure may be an important source of home contamination... - Acephate exposure and decontamination on tobacco harvesters' handsBrian D Curwin
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Industrywide Studies Branch, 4676 Columbia Parkway MS R 14, Cincinnati Ohio 45226, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 13:203-10. 2003..0001) with levels reduced by 96%. A substantial amount of acephate was transferred to the hands, and while hand washing significantly reduced the amount of residue on the hands, not all residue was removed... - Measuring and identifying large-study metrics for circadian rhythm disruption in female flight attendantsBarbara Grajewski
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, United States
Scand J Work Environ Health 29:337-46. 2003.... - Analysis of lognormally distributed exposure data with repeated measures and values below the limit of detection using SASYan Jin
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 55:97-112. 2011..We provide sample SAS code for several situations including one and two groups, with and without repeated measures, random slopes, and nested random effects... - Evaluating fungal populations by genera/species on wide body commercial passenger aircraft and in airport terminalsLauralynn Taylor McKernan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 51:281-91. 2007..Overall, our research demonstrates that on the sampled flights the B-767 filtration system operated efficiently to remove fungal spores when two air cooling packs and 50% recirculation rate were utilized during flight operations... - Urinary pesticide concentrations among children, mothers and fathers living in farm and non-farm households in iowaBrian D Curwin
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies Cincinnati, OH, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 51:53-65. 2007..There were generally good correlations for urinary metabolite levels among members of the same family... - Recovery efficiency and limit of detection of aerosolized Bacillus anthracis Sterne from environmental surface samplesCheryl Fairfield Estill
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:4297-306. 2009..These results may guide investigators to more meaningfully conduct environmental sampling, quantify contamination levels, and conduct risk assessment for humans... - Polychlorinated biphenyls and neurodegenerative disease mortality in an occupational cohortKyle Steenland
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Epidemiology 17:8-13. 2006..PCBs decrease dopamine levels in rats and monkeys. Loss of dopamine is the hallmark of Parkinson disease, a neurodegenerative disease. There are no epidemiologic studies of PCBs and neurodegenerative disease... - Surface sampling methods for Bacillus anthracis spore contaminationWayne T Sanderson
Centers for Desease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:1145-51. 2002..Wipe samples collected after HEPA vacuum samples and HEPA vacuum samples collected after wipe samples indicated that neither method completely removed spores from the sampled surfaces...