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Environmental tobacco smoke, indoor allergens, and childhood asthmaD R Gold
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:643-51. 2000....
Ambient pollution and heart rate variabilityD R Gold
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5804, USA
Circulation 101:1267-73. 2000..Particles with aerodynamic diameter </=2.5 microm (PM(2.5)) were measured continuously using a tapered element oscillating microbalance...
Predictors of airborne endotoxin in the homeJ H Park
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:859-64. 2001..Airborne endotoxin in Boston-area homes appears to be determined by the presence of dogs, moisture sources, and increased amounts of settled dust...
Multiple microbial exposures in the home may protect against asthma or allergy in childhoodJ E Sordillo
Channing Laboratory, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Exp Allergy 40:902-10. 2010....
House dust endotoxin and wheeze in the first year of lifeJ H Park
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163:322-8. 2001..38) of repeated wheeze. These results suggest that home endotoxin exposure may independently increase risk of any wheeze and repeated wheeze during the first year of life for children with a familial predisposition to asthma or allergy...
Traffic related pollution and heart rate variability in a panel of elderly subjectsJ Schwartz
Department of Environmental Health, Environmental Epidemiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, P O Box 15677, Landmark Center, Suite 415, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Thorax 60:455-61. 2005....
Race, socioeconomic factors, and area of residence are associated with asthma prevalenceA A Litonjua
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 28:394-401. 1999..5, 11.7, respectively, for the children. We conclude that a large proportion of the racial/ethnic differences in asthma prevalence in our study is explained by factors related to income, area of residence, and level of education...
Exposure to cockroach allergen in the home is associated with incident doctor-diagnosed asthma and recurrent wheezingA A Litonjua
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 107:41-7. 2001..These findings remained after control for several covariates. CONCLUSION: Exposure to cockroach allergen early in life may contribute to the development of asthma in susceptible children...
Association of specific allergen sensitization with socioeconomic factors and allergic disease in a population of Boston womenS A Lewis
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 107:615-22. 2001..CONCLUSION: We have demonstrated a socioeconomic gradient in sensitization that concords with increased rates of asthma in less affluent communities in this population...
Maternal intestinal flora and wheeze in early childhoodN E Lange
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Exp Allergy 42:901-8. 2012..Increasing evidence links altered intestinal flora in infancy to eczema and asthma. No studies have investigated the influence of maternal intestinal flora on wheezing and eczema in early childhood...
Longitudinal relationship of early life immunomodulatory T cell phenotype and function to development of allergic sensitization in an urban cohortR M McLoughlin
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Exp Allergy 42:392-404. 2012..Immunomodulatory T cells are thought to influence development of allergy and asthma, but early life longitudinal data on their phenotype and function are lacking...
Effects of ozone and other pollutants on the pulmonary function of adult hikersS A Korrick
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 106:93-9. 1998..5, and strong aerosol acidity were associated with significant effects on pulmonary function among adults. Hikers with a history of asthma or wheeze had significantly greater air pollution-related changes in pulmonary function...
Day care attendance in the first year of life and illnesses of the upper and lower respiratory tract in children with a familial history of atopyJ C Celedon
Channing Laboratory and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 104:495-500. 1999..To examine the relationship between day care attendance and illnesses of the upper and lower respiratory tract in the first year of life...
Socioeconomic predictors of high allergen levels in homes in the greater Boston areaB T Kitch
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:301-7. 2000..Within a single U.S. metropolitan area we found marked between-community differences in the types of allergens present in the home, but not necessarily in the overall burden of allergen exposure...
Mouse allergen exposure, wheeze and atopy in the first seven years of lifeW Phipatanakul
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Allergy 63:1512-8. 2008..Little is known about mouse allergen exposure in home environments and the development of wheezing, asthma and atopy in childhood...
Elevated allergen-induced IL-13 secretion predicts IgE elevation in children ages 2-5 yearsN P Ly
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Clin Immunol 25:314-20. 2005..01) and Fel d 1 (p = 0.002) among those with elevated IgE at age 4-5. In a group of children ages 2-5 years, there is an association between IL-13 and elevated IgE...
Association between air pollution exposure and exhaled nitric oxide in an elderly populationG Adamkiewicz
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Thorax 59:204-9. 2004....
Umbilical cord plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and immune function at birth: the Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma studyA Chi
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111 1800, USA
Clin Exp Allergy 41:842-50. 2011..Recent studies have reported conflicting data on the association between maternal intake of vitamin D during pregnancy and asthma...
Predictors of indoor exposure to mouse allergen in urban and suburban homes in BostonW Phipatanakul
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Allergy 60:697-701. 2005..Among infants at high risk for atopy, predictors of increased mouse allergen levels included black race, reported mice exposure, and moderate levels of cockroach allergen...
Ambient particulate air pollution and cardiac arrhythmia in a panel of older adults in Steubenville, OhioS E Sarnat
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Occup Environ Med 63:700-6. 2006..In an eastern US location with significant regional pollution, the authors examined the association of air pollution and odds of cardiac arrhythmia in older adults...
Fetal cord blood: aspects of heightened immune responsesB Schaub
University Children s Hospital, Dr von Haunersches Kinderspital, Munich, Germany
J Clin Immunol 25:329-37. 2005..37, p < 0.001). For some individuals, a predisposition to a heightened immune response is already evident at birth. Whether this phenotype results in atopy in childhood warrants further investigation...
Dustborne and airborne fungal propagules represent a different spectrum of fungi with differing relations to home characteristicsG L Chew
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Allergy 58:13-20. 2003..It may be essential to collect both air and dust samples, as well as information on housing characteristics, as indicators for fungal exposure...
Air pollution and inflammation in type 2 diabetes: a mechanism for susceptibilityM S O'Neill
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Occup Environ Med 64:373-9. 2007..One potential pathway is inflammation and endothelial dysfunction-processes in which cell adhesion molecules and inflammatory markers play important roles...
