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Race/ethnicity-specific associations of urinary phthalates with childhood body mass in a nationally representative sampleLeonardo Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
Environ Health Perspect 121:501-6. 2013..Phthalates have antiandrogenic effects and may disrupt lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Racial/ethnic subpopulations have been documented to have varying urinary phthalate concentrations and prevalences of childhood obesity...
Infant antibiotic exposures and early-life body massL Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 37:16-23. 2013..To examine the associations of antibiotic exposures during the first 2 years of life and the development of body mass over the first 7 years of life...
Associations of World Trade Center exposures with pulmonary and cardiometabolic outcomes among children seeking care for health concernsLeonardo Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Sci Total Environ 444:320-6. 2013..We examined the impact of clinically-reported exposures on the physical health of children who lived and/or attended school in downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001...
Association between urinary bisphenol A concentration and obesity prevalence in children and adolescentsLeonardo Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
JAMA 308:1113-21. 2012..In adults, elevated urinary BPA concentrations are associated with obesity and incident coronary artery disease. BPA exposure is plausibly linked to childhood obesity, but evidence is lacking to date...
The economic burden placed on healthcare systems by childhood obesityLeonardo Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University, 227 East 30th Street, Room 711, NY 10016, USA
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 12:39-45. 2012..Large investments through research and prevention are needed and are likely to provide strong returns in cost savings, and would optimally emerge through a cooperative effort between private and government payers alike...
Incremental charges, costs, and length of stay associated with obesity as a secondary diagnosis among pregnant womenLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Med Care 47:1046-52. 2009..Elevation in prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) has been linked to a host of perinatal complications, but increases in charges or costs associated with obesity during pregnancy have not been quantified...
The effects of outdoor air pollutants on the costs of pediatric asthma hospitalizations in the United States, 1999 to 2007Angkana Roy
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Med Care 49:810-7. 2011..Acute exposure to outdoor air pollutants has been associated with increased pediatric asthma morbidity. However, the impact of subchronic exposures is largely unknown...
Reducing the staggering costs of environmental disease in children, estimated at $76.6 billion in 2008Leonardo Trasande
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:863-70. 2011....
Effects of childhood obesity on hospital care and costs, 1999-2005Leonardo Trasande
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w751-60. 2009..Medicaid appears to bear a large burden of hospitalizations for conditions that occur along with obesity, while private payers pay a greater portion of hospitalization costs to treat obesity itself...
Demographics, clinical characteristics and outcomes of neonates diagnosed with fetomaternal haemorrhageAnnemarie Stroustrup
Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1508, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F405-10. 2012..To determine clinical characteristics, demographics and short-term outcomes of neonates diagnosed with fetomaternal haemorrhage (FMH)...
Exploring prenatal outdoor air pollution, birth outcomes and neonatal health care utilization in a nationally representative sampleLeonardo Trasande
1 Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 2 Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 New York University Wagner School of Public Service, New York, New York, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 23:315-21. 2013....
How developing nations can protect children from hazardous chemical exposures while sustaining economic growthLeonardo Trasande
School of Medicine, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:2400-9. 2011..We recommend that industrializing nations in particular employ these principles to prevent disease among their populations while at the same time minimizing the risk to their own economic development...
Economics of children's environmental healthLeonardo Trasande
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 78:98-106. 2011..Nevertheless, economic analyses in children's environmental health are highly informative and important informants to public-health and policy practice. Further attention and training in their appropriate use are needed...
Epidemiological characteristics and resource use in neonates with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: 1993-2006Annemarie Stroustrup
Division of Newborn Medicine, Kravis Children s Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
Pediatrics 126:291-7. 2010..To determine the trends in incidence of diagnosis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and associated health services use for the neonatal hospitalization of patients with BPD in an era of changing definitions and management...
How much should we invest in preventing childhood obesity?Leonardo Trasande
Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:372-8. 2010..Large investments to reduce this major contributor to adult disability may thus be cost-effective by widely accepted criteria...
Bisphenol A exposure is associated with low-grade urinary albumin excretion in children of the United StatesLeonardo Trasande
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016, USA
Kidney Int 83:741-8. 2013..Our findings broaden the array of adverse effects of BPA to include endothelial dysfunction as evidenced by the low-grade albuminuria and support proactive efforts to prevent harmful exposures...
Use of community-level data in the National Children's Study to establish the representativeness of segment selection in the Queens Vanguard SiteAndrew Rundle
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Health Geogr 11:18. 2012..We test whether the neighborhoods selected for NCS recruitment, are representative of the whole of Queens County, and whether there is sufficient variability across neighborhoods for meaningful studies of contextual variables...
Randomized controlled trial of restrictive fluid management in transient tachypnea of the newbornAnnemarie Stroustrup
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
J Pediatr 160:38-43.e1. 2012..To determine the effect of mild fluid restriction on the hospital course of neonates with transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN)...
Translating knowledge about environmental health to practitioners: are we doing enough?Leonardo Trasande
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 77:114-23. 2010..A national network of pediatric environmental health specialty units has been established to strengthen prevention capacity, yet the effectiveness of that translational resource has not been assessed...
The impact of obesity on health service utilization and costs in childhoodLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1749-54. 2009....
