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Epidemiology of lung cancer: looking to the futureAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, 21205, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:3175-85. 2005..Unless further reductions in the prevalence of cigarette smoking are achieved over the next decade, lung cancer will remain as an all too common, but avoidable, disease...- Residential radon and lung cancer: end of the story?Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 69:527-31. 2006.... - Smoking bans prevent heart attacksJonathan M Samet
Circulation 114:1450-1. 2006 - Commentary: Could biomass fuel smoke cause anaemia and stunting in early childhood?Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:130-1. 2007 
Air pollution and public health: a guidance document for risk managersLorraine Craig
Network for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health A 71:588-698. 2008....
Turning science into junk: the tobacco industry and passive smokingJ M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1742-4. 2001..The goal of "sound science" seems an admirable one; it should not, however, be used to dismiss available but uncertain evidence in order to delay action...- Biomedicine. Do airborne particles induce heritable mutations?Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Science 304:971-2. 2004 - Secondhand smoke: facts and liesJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, The Institute for Global Tobacco Control, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Salud Publica Mex 50:428-34. 2008.... - George W. Comstock's contributions to respiratory disease epidemiologyJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:794-5. 2008 - New problems for an old design: time series analyses of air pollution and healthJonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiology 14:11-2. 2003 - Commentary: nitrogen dioxide and asthma reduxJonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Int J Epidemiol 33:215-6. 2004 - Adverse effects of smoke exposure on the upper airwayJ M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Suite W6041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tob Control 13:i57-60. 2004..This paper reviews secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and diseases and symptoms of the upper airway, including the sinuses. Risks to flight attendants, who were occupationally exposed until smoking was banned on all flights, are emphasised... - Air pollution risk estimates: determinants of heterogeneityJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 71:578-82. 2008.... - Risk assessment and child healthJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Pediatrics 113:952-6. 2004..Meeting society's call for healthy environments for children poses an extraordinary challenge to researchers and to the policy makers who seek to develop evidence-based policies to protect children... - Epidemiologic research needs for particulate air pollutionJonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1873-6. 2003 - Education in epidemiology: "The Times They Are a-Changin'"Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21505, USA
Epidemiology 19:345-6. 2008..We offer suggestions for educational programs and professional organizations on approaching these ongoing challenges... - The perspective of the National Research Council's Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate MatterJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1063-7. 2005..The article describes the committee's achievements and research progress in relation to key scientific questions relevant to establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)... - Models of smoking and lung cancer risk: a means to an endJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Epidemiology 18:649-51. 2007..We conclude that the work of Lubin and colleagues adds to the models already developed and points to some potential complexities that models should incorporate... - Workshop summary: assessing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the workplaceJ M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Environ Health Perspect 107:309-12. 1999..This summary of the discussions at the workshop is an overview of the suggested approach to exposure assessment... - Health effects associated with exposure to ambient air pollutionJonathan Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 70:227-42. 2007..The review is based on the framework and findings of the U.S. National Research Committee (NRC) on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter and addresses key questions underlying air quality risk management policy decisions... - Environmental sustainability: a target for environmental epidemiology?Jonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiology 18:179-80. 2007 - Radon and lung cancer risk: taking stock at the milleniumJ M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:635-41. 2000.... - Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in 20 U.S. cities, 1987-1994J M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
N Engl J Med 343:1742-9. 2000..Although these findings have helped lead to a tightening of air-quality standards, their validity with respect to public health has been questioned... - Epidemiology: more than etiologyJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Eur J Epidemiol 19:719-22. 2004 - Indoor environments and health: moving into the 21st centuryJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Suite W6041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1489-93. 2003..The policy context for built environments extends beyond health considerations to include energy use for air-conditioning, selection of materials for sustainability, and design for safety, security, and productivity... - Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequencesS L Zeger
Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:419-26. 2000..Finally, we summarize open questions regarding measurement error and suggest the kind of additional data necessary to address them... - The potential impacts of climate variability and change on air pollution-related health effects in the United StatesS M Bernard
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:199-209. 2001.... - The potential health impacts of climate variability and change for the United States: executive summary of the report of the health sector of the U.S. National AssessmentJ A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:367-76. 2000..S. population from any adverse health outcomes of projected climate change... - Summary: workshop on health risks attributable to ETS exposure in the workplaceM S Jaakkola
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 107:823-7. 1999.... - Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and health risk assessmentM S Jaakkola
Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 107:829-35. 1999..The most appropriate indicator of ETS exposure depends on these factors and on the time period that can be assessed with different methods... - Mortality in the Medicare population and chronic exposure to fine particulate air pollution in urban centers (2000-2005)Scott L Zeger
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1614-9. 2008..5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)) because few studies have been carried out and the cohorts have not been representative... - Fine particulate matter and mortality: a comparison of the six cities and American Cancer Society cohorts with a medicare cohortSorina E Eftim
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiology 19:209-16. 2008..5) on mortality. Using Medicare data, we assessed the association of PM2.5 with mortality for the same locations included in these studies... - Time-series studies of particulate matterMichelle L Bell
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 25:247-80. 2004.... - Improving performance of HVAC systems to reduce exposure to aerosolized infectious agents in buildings; recommendations to reduce risks posed by biological attacksPenny J Hitchcock
Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
Biosecur Bioterror 4:41-54. 2006.... - The legacy of World Trade Center dustJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
N Engl J Med 356:2233-6. 2007 - Modelling the health benefits of smoking cessation in JapanE Avila-Tang
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Room W6041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tob Control 18:10-7. 2009..This study attempted to quantify future reduction in the burden of smoking-attributable disease that could result from increases in smoking cessation... - Report of workshop on traffic, health, and infrastructure planningRonald H White
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 60:70-6. 2005.... - Determinants of hair nicotine concentrations in nonsmoking women and children: a multicountry study of secondhand smoke exposure in homesSungroul Kim
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:3407-14. 2009..The association between children's exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke at home and hair nicotine concentration was stronger among younger children and children with longer exposure at home... - Fine particulate air pollution and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseasesFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 295:1127-34. 2006..5 microm in aerodynamic diameter [PM2.5]) is limited. Results from the new national monitoring network for PM2.5 make possible systematic research on health risks at national and regional scales... - Estimating the risks and benefits of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in the United StatesBenjamin J Apelberg
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 100:341-8. 2010..To compare potential population-wide benefits and risks, we examined the potential impact of increased nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) use for smoking cessation on future US mortality... - Emergency admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and the chemical composition of fine particle air pollutionRoger D Peng
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:957-63. 2009..5) (particulate matter <or= 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter) as the indicator. Evidence regarding the toxicity of the chemical components of the PM(2.5) mixture is limited... - Does the effect of PM10 on mortality depend on PM nickel and vanadium content? A reanalysis of the NMMAPS dataFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1701-3. 2007..They found that average concentrations of nickel or vanadium in PM2.5 (PM with aerodynamic diameter < 2.5 microm) positively modified the lag-1 day association between PM10 and all-cause mortality... - Secondhand smoke exposure among women and children: evidence from 31 countriesHeather Wipfli
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, W6027, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 98:672-9. 2008.... - Traffic, air pollution, and healthJonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inhal Toxicol 19:1021-7. 2007.... - [Laws that ban smoking in indoor places in Mexico]Raydel Valdes-Salgado
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Salud Publica Mex 50:S334-42. 2008..These two laws strengthen the Mexican tobacco control program. Next steps include their implementation, evaluation, enforcement of compliance and encouragement for similar laws at state level... - Coarse particulate matter air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases among Medicare patientsRoger D Peng
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
JAMA 299:2172-9. 2008..5) have been studied extensively over the last decade. Evidence concerning the health risks of the coarse fraction of greater than 2.5 microm and 10 microm or less in aerodynamic diameter (PM10-2.5) is limited... - Particulate air pollution and mortality in the United States: did the risks change from 1987 to 2000?Francesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:880-8. 2007..The methodology presented can be used to track the health effects of air pollution routinely on regional and national scales... - Radiation-induced cancer risk from annual computed tomography for patients with cystic fibrosisAmy Berrington de Gonzalez
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:970-3. 2007..Computed tomography (CT) is being considered as a tool for routine monitoring of lung damage in people with cystic fibrosis. Concern has been raised, however, about the associated risk of radiation-induced cancer... - State-of-the-science workshop report: issues and approaches in low-dose-response extrapolation for environmental health risk assessmentRonald H White
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:283-7. 2009.... - Revised analyses of the National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study: mortality among residents of 90 citiesFrancesca Dominici
Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1071-92. 2005..The findings of the updated analysis with regard to spatial heterogeneity across the 90 cities were unchanged from the original analyses... - Hierarchical bivariate time series models: a combined analysis of the effects of particulate matter on morbidity and mortalityFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 3179, USA
Biostatistics 5:341-60. 2004..We illustrate this prediction using New York as an example... - National maps of the effects of particulate matter on mortality: exploring geographical variationFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 3179, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:39-44. 2003.... - Airborne particulate matter and mortality: timescale effects in four US citiesFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:1055-65. 2003..These analyses provide additional evidence that associations between particle indexes and mortality do not imply only an advance in the timing of death by a few days for frail individuals... - On the use of generalized additive models in time-series studies of air pollution and healthFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 3179, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:193-203. 2002..The authors found that pooled NMMAPS estimates were very similar under the first and third methods but were biased upward under the second method... - Environmental causes of lung cancer: what do we know in 2003?Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Chest 125:80S-3S. 2004..This article provides an overview of past and current research on the environment and lung cancer, and addresses the use of scientific evidence in controlling this cancer, which is largely caused by the environment... - Method validation for measurement of hair nicotine level in nonsmokersSung Roul Kim
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biomed Chromatogr 23:273-9. 2009..In the field study (n = 2400), a positive association was evident between hair nicotine concentrations from nonsmokers and higher numbers of cigarettes smoked per day in a household... - Temperature and mortality among the elderly in the United States: a comparison of epidemiologic methodsRupa Basu
Departments of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Epidemiology 16:58-66. 2005..Our objective was to compare time-series and case-crossover analyses using varying referent periods (ie, unidirectional, ambidirectional, and time-stratified)... - Seasonal analyses of air pollution and mortality in 100 US citiesRoger D Peng
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 6125 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:585-94. 2005..These results provide useful information for understanding particle toxicity and guiding future analyses of particle constituent data... - Epidemiology of lung cancerAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Chest 123:21S-49S. 2003..This favorable trend will not persist unless further reductions in smoking prevalence are achieved... - Building capacity for international tobacco control research: the global tobacco research networkFrances A Stillman
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Rm W6027, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 95:965-8. 2005..As an issue-specific network focused on information sharing and capacity building associated with tobacco control research, the GTRN will provide an opportunity for enhancing the effectiveness of tobacco control initiatives... - Controlling the avoidable causes of cancer: needs and opportunities for etiologic researchJ M Samet
School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Environ Health Perspect 103:307-11. 1995.... - Epidemiologic studies of ionizing radiation and cancer: past successes and future challengesJ M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Environ Health Perspect 105:883-9. 1997.... - Epidemiologic approaches to global healthThomas C Quinn
Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health, Rangos Building, 855 North Wolfe Street, Suite 530, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 32:1-4. 2010..The authors emphasize the need for ongoing research related to the methods used in global health and for comprehensive surveillance, and they offer suggestions for future directions in global health research... - An exposure assessment study of ambient heat exposure in an elderly population in Baltimore, MarylandRupa Basu
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:1219-24. 2002..The protocol established in this study for heat exposure assessment could feasibly be applied on a larger scale... - Cotinine concentration in smokers from different countries: relationship with amount smoked and cigarette typeAmanda L Blackford
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1799-804. 2006..Results suggest a saturation point for daily nicotine intake and minimal or no reduction in nicotine intake by smoking light cigarettes... - Relation between elevated ambient temperature and mortality: a review of the epidemiologic evidenceRupa Basu
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Epidemiol Rev 24:190-202. 2002 - Respiratory effects of inhalation exposure among workers during the clean-up effort at the World Trade Center disaster siteJulie B Herbstman
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Environ Res 99:85-92. 2005..The prevalence rates of upper airway symptoms (nasal congestion, sore throat, hoarse throat) exceeded those of lower respiratory symptoms, however, it was not determined whether symptoms pre-dated arrival at the WTC site... - Temperature and mortality in 11 cities of the eastern United StatesFrank C Curriero
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:80-7. 2002..The model developed in this analysis is potentially useful for projecting the consequences of climate-change scenarios and offering insights into susceptibility to the adverse effects of weather... - ACE forum report: the making of an epidemiologist--necessary components for doctoral education and trainingNora L Lee
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ann Epidemiol 13:552-6. 2003..The recommendations derived from the education forum are summarized in this report, which may serve as an impetus for changes in the education and training of future epidemiologists... - Challenging the epidemiologic evidence on passive smoking: tactics of tobacco industry expert witnessesJohn A Francis
Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tob Control 15:iv68-76. 2006.... - Determinants of salivary cotinine concentrations in Chinese male smokersMaritta S Jaakkola
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberry School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prev Med 36:282-90. 2003..Our aims were to characterize the distribution of salivary cotinine levels in Chinese smokers and to investigate factors that influence cotinine concentrations... - Lung cancer in never smokers: molecular profiles and therapeutic implicationsCharles M Rudin
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, David H Koch Cancer Research Building, Room 544, 1550 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:5646-61. 2009..Focused analysis of molecular carcinogenesis in lung cancers in never smokers is needed, and may provide additional biologic insight with therapeutic implications for lung cancers in both ever smokers and never smokers... - Lung cancer in never smokers: clinical epidemiology and environmental risk factorsJonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:5626-45. 2009..However, a large fraction of lung cancers occurring in never smokers cannot be definitively associated with established environmental risk factors, highlighting the need for additional epidemiologic research in this area... - [Risks of active and passive smoking]Jonathan M Samet
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Salud Publica Mex 44:S144-60. 2002 - Lung cancer in never smokers: a call to actionCharles M Rudin
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:5622-5. 2009..This CCR Focus summarizes recent data, identifies knowledge deficits, and suggests future research directions with regard to this critically important subset of lung cancer patients... - Sleep-disordered breathing and mortality: a prospective cohort studyNaresh M Punjabi
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS Med 6:e1000132. 2009.... - Mortality risks for all causes and cardiovascular diseases and reduced GFR in a middle-aged working population in TaiwanTing Yuan David Cheng
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 52:1051-60. 2008..Effects of decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality are uncertain in Chinese general populations... - Small particles with big effectsWilliam N Rom
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173:365-6. 2006 - Studies of particulate air pollution and mortality: when do authors comment on the policy implications?Elizabeth M Begier
Epidemiology 13:743-4. 2002 - SAPALDIA 2: the cohort continuesJonathan M Samet
Soz Praventivmed 50:195-6. 2005 - What are the cancer risks from using chest computed tomography to manage cystic fibrosis?Amy Berrington de Gonzalez
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173:139-40. 2006 - A meta-analysis of time-series studies of ozone and mortality with comparison to the national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution studyMichelle L Bell
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Epidemiology 16:436-45. 2005..Although many time-series studies of ozone and mortality have identified positive associations, others have yielded null or inconclusive results, making the results of these studies difficult to interpret... - Determinants of salivary cotinine levels among current smokers in MexicoJulio C Campuzano
, , Cuernavaca, Morelos,
Nicotine Tob Res 6:997-1008. 2004.... - Smoking kills: experimental proof from the Lung Health StudyJonathan M Samet
Ann Intern Med 142:299-301. 2005 - Ozone and short-term mortality in 95 US urban communities, 1987-2000Michelle L Bell
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Conn 06511, USA
JAMA 292:2372-8. 2004..Although numerous time-series studies have estimated associations between day-to-day variation in ozone levels and mortality counts, results have been inconclusive... - Smoking among adolescents in China: 1998 survey findingsGonghuan Yang
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Int J Epidemiol 33:1103-10. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The evidence highlights the need for tobacco control interventions aimed at youths in China including non-student youths. For males, prevention programmes should extend into young adulthood... - Epidemiology of lung cancer: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition)Anthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas St, PO Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Chest 132:29S-55S. 2007..The objective of this study was to summarize the published literature concerning the epidemiology of lung cancer... - Cancer risks attributable to low doses of ionizing radiation: assessing what we really knowDavid J Brenner
Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:13761-6. 2003..This linearity assumption is not necessarily the most conservative approach, and it is likely that it will result in an underestimate of some radiation-induced cancer risks and an overestimate of others... - Re: "On the use of generalized additive models in time-series studies of air pollution and health" and "Temperature and mortality in 11 cities of the eastern United States"Frank C Curriero
Am J Epidemiol 158:93-4. 2003 - Measuring the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids for COPD is not easy!Jonathan M Samet
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 168:1-2. 2003 - Colloquium statement: strategic policy directions for air quality managementLorraine Craig
Institute for Risk Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health A 71:539-43. 2008 - Smoking and cancer risk in Korean men and womenSun Ha Jee
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Cancer Causes Control 15:341-8. 2004..This cohort study examined the effects of cigarette smoking on the risk of cancer mortality and incidence, and characterized the relationship of cancer risk with the amount and duration of cigarette smoking... - The global burden of disease due to outdoor air pollutionAaron J Cohen
Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1301-7. 2005..If air pollution multiplies both incidence and mortality to the same extent (i.e., the same relative risk), then the DALYs for cardiopulmonary disease increase by 20% worldwide...
Research Grants
- Data Coordinating Center for Sleep Heart HealthMarie Diener West; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- A Cohort Study of Active and Passive Smoking in KoreaJonathan Samet; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Orange County, FloridaJonathan Samet; Fiscal Year: 2002..The results will be discussed in terms of implications for future use of antidepressants. ..