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Short-term associations between ambient air pollutants and pediatric asthma emergency department visitsMatthew J Strickland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 182:307-16. 2010..To advance understanding of these relationships, further characterization of the dose-response and pollutant lag effects are needed, as are investigations of pollutant species beyond the commonly measured criteria pollutants...
Implications of different approaches for characterizing ambient air pollutant concentrations within the urban airshed for time-series studies and health benefits analysesMatthew J Strickland
Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health 10:36. 2011..In time-series studies of the health effects of urban air pollutants, decisions must be made about how to characterize pollutant levels within the airshed...
A method for detection of residual confounding in time-series and other observational studiesW Dana Flanders
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Epidemiology 22:59-67. 2011....
The use of alternative pollutant metrics in time-series studies of ambient air pollution and respiratory emergency department visitsLyndsey A Darrow
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21:10-9. 2011..Comparative analysis of temporal metrics also provided insight into underlying relationships between specific air pollutants and respiratory health...
A method to detect residual confounding in spatial and other observational studiesW Dana Flanders
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Epidemiology 22:823-6. 2011..A related question addressed here is whether an analogous indicator can be used to identify residual confounding in a study based on spatial, rather than temporal, contrasts...
Impact of exposure measurement error in air pollution epidemiology: effect of error type in time-series studiesGretchen T Goldman
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 0512, USA
Environ Health 10:61. 2011..e. additive on the log scale) and model it over a range of error types to assess impacts on risk ratio estimates both on a per measurement unit basis and on a per interquartile range (IQR) basis in a time-series study in Atlanta...
Seasonality of birth and implications for temporal studies of preterm birthLyndsey A Darrow
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Epidemiology 20:699-706. 2009..To illustrate, we describe the seasonal patterns of birth in Atlanta and demonstrate how these patterns could lead to confounding in time-series studies of seasonally-varying exposures and preterm birth...
Ambient air pollution and birth weight in full-term infants in Atlanta, 1994-2004Lyndsey A Darrow
Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:731-7. 2011..An emerging body of evidence suggests that ambient levels of air pollution during pregnancy are associated with fetal growth...
Ambient air pollutant measurement error: characterization and impacts in a time-series epidemiologic study in AtlantaGretchen T Goldman
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Environ Sci Technol 44:7692-8. 2010..5) elemental carbon); pollutants of mixed origin (PM(10), PM(2.5), PM(2.5) organic carbon) had intermediate impacts. Quantifying impacts of measurement error on health effect estimates improves interpretation across ambient pollutants...
The importance of nomenclature for congenital cardiac disease: implications for research and evaluationMatthew J Strickland
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Cardiol Young 18:92-100. 2008..Administrative databases are often used for congenital cardiac disease research and evaluation, with little validation of the accuracy of the diagnostic codes...
Impact of prior hospital mortality versus surgical volume on mortality following surgery for congenital heart diseaseMatthew E Oster
Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Sibley Heart Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 142:882-6. 2011..Our objective was to assess the relationships of a hospital's past adjusted in-hospital mortality and surgical volume with future in-hospital mortality after surgery for congenital heart disease...
Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular malformations in Atlanta, Georgia, 1986-2003Matthew J Strickland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1004-14. 2009..60, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 2.31). Of the 60 associations examined in the primary analysis, no other significant associations were observed...
Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant StudyClinton J Alverson
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Mail Stop E 86, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 127:e647-53. 2011..We investigated associations between maternal cigarette smoking during the first trimester and the risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs) among the infants...
Use of antihistamine medications during early pregnancy and isolated major malformationsSuzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85:137-50. 2009..There is little evidence that they have teratogenic effects, but there are knowledge gaps with respect to newer products, as well as the relationship between specific antihistamines and specific birth defects...
Multistate study of the epidemiology of clubfootSamantha E Parker
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85:897-904. 2009..The purpose of this study was to pool data from several birth defects surveillance programs to better estimate the prevalence of clubfoot and investigate its risk factors...
Racial and ethnic disparities in post-operative mortality following congenital heart surgeryMatthew E Oster
Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Emory University, Sibley Heart Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Pediatr 159:222-6. 2011..This study assessed racial/ethnic disparities in post-operative mortality after surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD) and explored whether disparities persist after adjusting for access to care...
Use of special education services among children with and without congenital gastrointestinal anomaliesShannon E G Hamrick
Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Intellect Dev Disabil 115:421-32. 2010....
Improving the quality of surveillance data on congenital heart defects in the metropolitan Atlanta congenital defects programTiffany Riehle-Colarusso
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:743-53. 2007..This study reports the classification of cases of CHDs in a birth defects surveillance database using modified STS nomenclature...
Application of the automated spatial surveillance program to birth defects surveillance dataBennett R Gardner
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:559-64. 2007....
Quantifying geocode location error using GIS methodsMatthew J Strickland
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health 6:10. 2007..Geographic information system (GIS) methods were used to quantify uncertainty in the two sets of geocodes using orthoimagery and tax parcel datasets...
Role of geographic information systems in birth defects surveillance and researchCsaba Siffel
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 76:825-33. 2006..With the significant advancement of geographic information systems (GIS), mapping and evaluating the spatial distribution of health events has become easier. We examine the role of GIS in birth defects surveillance and research...
