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| R Y WangSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Environmental chemicals: from the environment to food, to breast milk, to the infantR Y Wang
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 10:597-609. 2007..Thus, several factors affect the presence in human milk of environmental chemicals from dietary sources...
Serum concentrations of selected persistent organic pollutants in a sample of pregnant females and changes in their concentrations during gestationRichard Y Wang
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1244-9. 2009....- Effects of environmental agents on the attainment of puberty: considerations when assessing exposure to environmental chemicals in the National Children's StudyRichard Y Wang
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1100-7. 2005..The NCS is uniquely poised to evaluate the effects of environmental chemicals on the age at puberty, and the above approach will allow the NCS to accomplish this task... - Medical toxicology and public health-update on research and activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease RegistryRichard Y Wang
Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
J Med Toxicol 4:143-4. 2008 
Levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mainstream smoke from different tobacco varietiesYan S Ding
Emergency Response and Air Toxicants Branch, Division of Laboratory Science, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, Mailstop F 47, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3366-71. 2008..The influence of nitrate on mainstream smoke NNK and PAH levels were of different magnitude and direction. Our results tend to indicate an inverse relation exists between NNK and PAH deliveries when considering different tobacco blends...- Iodine status of the U.S. population, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2004Kathleen L Caldwell
Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Thyroid 18:1207-14. 2008..It is the third assessment of the U.S. population since NHANES III (1988-1994), when the median UI level was observed to decrease from NHANES I (1971-1974)... - A public health focus on infertility prevention, detection, and managementMaurizio Macaluso
Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Fertil Steril 93:16.e1-10. 2010.... - Limitations of maximum likelihood estimation procedures when a majority of the observations are below the limit of detectionRam B Jain
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop F 47, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Anal Chem 80:4767-72. 2008..A maximum likelihood procedure without imputation should be preferred when N < 100 and P >or= 70%. However, it should be the expected that biases for both mean and SD in these circumstances may be unacceptably high... - Evaluation of maximum likelihood procedures to estimate left censored observationsRam B Jain
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Chamblee, GA 30329, USA
Anal Chem 80:1124-32. 2008..These findings support earlier observations, and they suggest that MLE with multiple imputations is the preferred method to estimate mean and SD when the frequency of left censored observations in the population is < or =40%... - Regression models to estimate total polychlorinated biphenyls in the general US population: 2001-2002 and 2003-2004Ram B Jain
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA 30329, United States
Chemosphere 79:243-52. 2010..The R(2) for both NHANES 2003-2004 models was >81%. Thus, the estimate of SigmaPCB for the general US population can be improved by considering common demographic variables, such as race/ethnicity, and selected congeners... - Reference range levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the US population by measurement of urinary monohydroxy metabolitesJames Grainger
Division of Environment Health Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Environ Res 100:394-423. 2006..Our study results enabled us to establish a reference range for the targeted PAHs in the general US population... - Biologic monitoring of exposure to environmental chemicals throughout the life stages: requirements and issues for consideration for the National Children's StudyDana B Barr
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1083-91. 2005.... - Exposure assessment in the National Children's Study: introductionLarry L Needham
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1076-82. 2005..Criteria for the analytical method of choice are discussed with particular emphasis on the need for long-term quality control and quality assurance measures... - Retrospective time-trend study of polybrominated diphenyl ether and polybrominated and polychlorinated biphenyl levels in human serum from the United StatesAndreas Sjodin
Organic Analytical Toxicology Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:654-8. 2004..In contrast, PCB and PBB levels were negatively correlated with sample collection year, indicating that the levels of these compounds have been decreasing since their phaseout in the 1970s... - Analytic considerations for measuring environmental chemicals in breast milkLarry L Needham
Toxicology Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:A317-24. 2002.... - Human milk research for answering questions about human healthRichard Y Wang
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1771-801. 2005..Human milk research designed to answer questions regarding health will require additional resources to meet these objectives... - Conclusions and recommendations of the expert panel: technical workshop on human milk surveillance and biomonitoring for environmental chemicals in the United StatesCheston M Berlin
Department of Pediatrics, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1825-31. 2005 - Exposures among pregnant women near the World Trade Center site on 11 September 2001Mary S Wolff
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:739-48. 2005..This report indicates intense bystander exposure after the WTC collapse and provides information about nonoccupational exposures among a vulnerable population of pregnant women... - Relation between cord blood mercury levels and early child development in a World Trade Center cohortSally Ann Lederman
Columbia Center for Children s Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1085-91. 2008..This study was designed to determine whether prenatal mercury exposure, including potential releases from the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, adversely affects fetal growth and child development...