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Cumulative exposure to lead and cognition in persons with Parkinson's diseaseJennifer Weuve
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Mov Disord 28:176-82. 2013..06). Patella bone lead concentration was not consistently associated with performance on the tests. These data provide evidence suggesting that cumulative exposure to lead may result in worsened cognition among persons with PD...
Exposure to particulate air pollution and cognitive decline in older womenJennifer Weuve
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60625, USA
Arch Intern Med 172:219-27. 2012..Our objective was to examine long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, both coarse ([PM 2.5-10 μm in diameter [PM(2.5-10)]) and fine (PM <2.5 μm in diameter [PM(2.5)]), in relation to cognitive decline...- Cumulative exposure to lead in relation to cognitive function in older womenJennifer Weuve
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:574-80. 2009..Recent data indicate that chronic low-level exposure to lead is associated with accelerated declines in cognition in older age, but this has not been examined in women... - Association of exposure to phthalates with endometriosis and uterine leiomyomata: findings from NHANES, 1999-2004Jennifer Weuve
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:825-32. 2010..Phthalates are ubiquitous chemicals used in consumer products. Some phthalates are reproductive toxicants in experimental animals, but human data are limited... - Accounting for bias due to selective attrition: the example of smoking and cognitive declineJennifer Weuve
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Epidemiology 23:119-28. 2012..Using inverse-probability-of-attrition weights, we examined the influence of selective attrition on the estimated association of current smoking (vs. never smoking) with cognitive decline... - Forced expiratory volume in 1 second and cognitive aging in menJennifer Weuve
Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:1283-92. 2011..To evaluate forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1) , a measure of overall lung function), long-term average FEV(1) , and rate of decline in FEV(1) in relation to cognition and cognitive decline in older men... - Interaction of the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase polymorphism and lead burden on cognitive function: the VA normative aging studyPradeep Rajan
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:1053-61. 2008..We evaluated the modifying influence of a delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism on the relation between lead burden and cognition among older men... - Lead burden and psychiatric symptoms and the modifying influence of the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism: the VA Normative Aging StudyPradeep Rajan
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:1400-8. 2007..004). These results augment evidence of a deleterious association between lead and psychiatric symptoms... - Association of cumulative lead exposure with Parkinson's diseaseMarc G Weisskopf
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:1609-13. 2010.... - Exposure to phthalates in neonatal intensive care unit infants: urinary concentrations of monoesters and oxidative metabolitesJennifer Weuve
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1424-31. 2006.... - Modifying effects of the HFE polymorphisms on the association between lead burden and cognitive declineFlorence T Wang
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1210-5. 2007..As iron and lead promote oxidative damage, and hemochromatosis (HFE) gene polymorphisms increase body iron burden, HFE variant alleles may modify the lead burden and cognitive decline relationship... - Relation of cumulative low-level lead exposure to depressive and phobic anxiety symptom scores in middle-age and elderly womenKi Do Eum
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:817-23. 2012..Different lines of evidence suggest that low-level lead exposure could be a modifiable risk factor for adverse psychological symptoms, but little work has explored this relation... - Cumulative community-level lead exposure and pulse pressure: the normative aging studyTodd Perlstein
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1696-700. 2007..Lead accumulates in the vasculature and is associated with vascular oxidative stress, which can promote functional and structural vascular disease... - Cumulative lead exposure and tooth loss in men: the normative aging studyManish Arora
Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1531-4. 2009..Individuals previously exposed to lead remain at risk because of endogenous release of lead stored in their skeletal compartments. However, it is not known if long-term cumulative lead exposure is a risk factor for tooth loss... - Cadmium exposure in association with history of stroke and heart failureJunenette L Peters
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, P O Box 15697, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Res 110:199-206. 2010..It is unclear whether environmental cadmium exposure is associated with cardiovascular disease, although recent data suggest associations with myocardial infarction and peripheral arterial disease... - Cadmium exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in U.S. childrenTimothy Ciesielski
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:758-63. 2012..Low-level environmental cadmium exposure in children may be associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes... 
When is baseline adjustment useful in analyses of change? An example with education and cognitive changeM Maria Glymour
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:267-78. 2005..In some cases, change-score analyses without baseline adjustment provide unbiased causal effect estimates when baseline-adjusted estimates are biased...- The association between blood pressure and incident Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysisMelinda C Power
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Epidemiology 22:646-59. 2011..Many epidemiologic studies have considered the association between blood pressure (BP) and Alzheimer disease, yet the relationship remains poorly understood... - Red blood cell distribution width and mortality risk in a community-based prospective cohortTodd S Perlstein
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:588-94. 2009..It is unknown whether RDW is associated with mortality in the general population or whether this association is specific to CVD... - Methodological challenges in causal research on racial and ethnic patterns of cognitive trajectories: measurement, selection, and biasM Maria Glymour
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 18:194-213. 2008..For each, we describe how to recognize when such biases may be relevant and some possible analytic or design approaches to remediating these biases... - Serum total bilirubin level, prevalent stroke, and stroke outcomes: NHANES 1999-2004Todd S Perlstein
Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Med 121:781-788.e1. 2008..Clinical data addressing the association of bilirubin with stroke are not available. We hypothesized that higher bilirubin levels would be associated with reduced stroke prevalence and improved stroke outcomes... - Association of environmental cadmium exposure with pediatric dental cariesManish Arora
Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:821-5. 2008..Although animal experiments have shown that cadmium exposure results in severe dental caries, limited epidemiologic data are available on this issue... - Maternal lead exposure and the secondary sex ratioJohn F Jarrell
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Hum Reprod 21:1901-6. 2006..A reduction in the secondary sex ratio may be associated with exposure to environmental toxicants. Little data exists relating this outcome to lead exposure, a well-known reproductive toxicant... - Use of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-containing medical products and urinary levels of mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in neonatal intensive care unit infantsRonald Green
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1222-5. 2005..1 times those among infants in the low exposure group (p = 0.03). CONCLUSION: Intensive use of DEHP-containing medical devices in NICU infants results in higher exposure to DEHP as reflected by elevated urinary levels of MEHP... - Physical activity, including walking, and cognitive function in older womenJennifer Weuve
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
JAMA 292:1454-61. 2004..Physical activity may help maintain cognitive function in older adults... - Postmenopausal hormone therapy and risk of cognitive decline in community-dwelling aging womenJae H Kang
Channing Lab, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neurology 63:101-7. 2004..However, questions remain, including the effect of longer duration or of hormone therapy initiated at younger ages... - High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cognitive function in older womenJennifer Weuve
Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Epidemiology 17:183-9. 2006..Inflammatory processes may be involved in the development of dementia, although findings from epidemiologic studies directly examining inflammatory markers and dementia or its precursor, impaired cognitive function, are inconsistent... - Breast cancer, birth cohorts, and Epstein-Barr virus: methodological issues in exploring the "hygiene hypothesis" in relation to breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and stomach cancerNancy Krieger
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:405-11. 2003..One methodological implication is that tests of the hygiene hypothesis must take into account birth cohort effects and age at incidence of the outcomes under study; age-standardized cross-sectional analyses may be misleading...