European birth cohorts for environmental health researchMartine Vrijheid
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:29-37. 2012
..An overview of existing studies and their data is needed to improve collaboration, harmonization, and future project planning...
- Conduct of a personal radiofrequency electromagnetic field measurement study: proposed study protocol
Martin Röösli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, Basel, 4051, Switzerland
Environ Health 9:23. 2010
..As a result, observed differences in exposure levels between study populations may not reflect real exposure differences but may be in part, or wholly due to methodological differences...
Socioeconomic status and exposure to multiple environmental pollutants during pregnancy: evidence for environmental inequity?Martine Vrijheid
CREAL Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park PRBB Room 187 02, Doctor Aiguader, 88 08003 Barcelona, Spain
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:106-13. 2012
..We therefore examine whether socioeconomic inequities exist in pregnancy exposures to multiple common environmental contaminants in air, water and food...
- Ambient air pollution and risk of congenital anomalies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Martine Vrijheid
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 119:598-606. 2011
..We systematically reviewed epidemiologic studies on ambient air pollution and congenital anomalies and conducted meta-analyses for a number of air pollutant-anomaly combinations...
- Indoor air pollution from gas cooking and infant neurodevelopment
Martine Vrijheid
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Epidemiology 23:23-32. 2012
..Because concerns are emerging for neurodevelopmental effects of air pollutants, we examined the relationship between indoor gas cooking during pregnancy and infant neurodevelopment...
- Prenatal exposure to cell phone use and neurodevelopment at 14 months
Martine Vrijheid
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Epidemiology 21:259-62. 2010
..Recently, an association was reported between prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phones and neurobehavioral problems in children at the age of 7 years...
- Determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study: implications for exposure assessment
M Vrijheid
International Agency for Research on Cancer IARC, Lyon, France
Occup Environ Med 66:664-71. 2009
..To improve indices of RF exposure for epidemiological studies, we assessed determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study...
- Quantifying the impact of selection bias caused by nonparticipation in a case-control study of mobile phone use
Martine Vrijheid
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Ann Epidemiol 19:33-41. 2009
..To quantitatively assess the impact of selection bias caused by nonparticipation in a multinational case-control study of mobile phone use and brain tumor...
- Ionizing radiation and risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the 15-country study of nuclear industry workers
Martine Vrijheid
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Radiat Res 170:661-5. 2008
..This study had little power due to low doses, short follow-up periods, and uncertainties in CLL ascertainment from death certificates; an extended follow-up of the cohorts is merited and would ideally include incident cancer cases...
- Recall bias in the assessment of exposure to mobile phones
Martine Vrijheid
Radiation Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 19:369-81. 2009
..However, apparent overestimation by cases in more distant time periods could cause positive bias in estimates of disease risk associated with mobile phone use...
- Breastfeeding, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in colostrum, and infant mental development
Monica Guxens
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Pediatrics 128:e880-9. 2011
..Breastfeeding has been associated with improved neurodevelopment in children. However, it remains unknown to what extent nutritional advantages of breast milk may explain this relationship...
- Pre-natal exposure to dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene and infant lower respiratory tract infections and wheeze
Mireia Gascon
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur Respir J 39:1188-96. 2012
..Results were similar for wheeze. This study suggests that pre-natal DDE exposure is associated with a higher risk of LRTI and wheeze in infants independently of exposure to other organochlorine compounds...
- Prenatal concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, DDE, and DDT and overweight in children: a prospective birth cohort study
Damaskini Valvi
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:451-7. 2012
..Recent experimental evidence suggests that prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may increase postnatal obesity risk and that these effects may be sex or diet dependent...
- Green space, health inequality and pregnancy
Payam Dadvand
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Int 40:110-5. 2012
..3 (43.1, 829.5)) or lived close to a major green space (Regression coefficient (95% CI)) of 189.8 (23.9, 355.7)). Our findings suggest a beneficial effect of exposure to green spaces on birth weight only in the lowest SEP group...
- Maternal intelligence-mental health and child neuropsychological development at age 14 months
Joan Forns
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Gac Sanit 26:397-404. 2012
..To examine the relationship between maternal intelligence-mental health and neuropsychological development at age 14 months in a normal population, taking into account maternal occupational social class and education...
- Prenatal exposure to residential air pollution and infant mental development: modulation by antioxidants and detoxification factors
Monica Guxens
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Carrer Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:144-9. 2012
..Air pollution effects on children's neurodevelopment have recently been suggested to occur most likely through the oxidative stress pathway...
- Genetic variants of the FADS gene cluster and ELOVL gene family, colostrums LC-PUFA levels, breastfeeding, and child cognition
Eva Morales
Center for research in environmental epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
PLoS ONE 6:e17181. 2011
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- Effects of pre and postnatal exposure to low levels of polybromodiphenyl ethers on neurodevelopment and thyroid hormone levels at 4 years of age
Mireia Gascon
Center for research in environmental epidemiology CREAL, Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Environ Int 37:605-11. 2011
..In the light of current evidence a precautionary approach towards PBDE exposure of both mothers and children seems warranted...
Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies: review and meta-analysesMark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Cien Saude Colet 15:3109-23. 2010
..Although some individual studies have suggested an association between chlorination disinfection by-products and congenital anomalies, meta-analyses of all currently available studies demonstrate little evidence of such association...
- Evaluating the neurotoxic effects of lactational exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Spanish children
Mireia Gascon
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neurotoxicology 34:9-15. 2013
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- In utero exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds and anogenital distance in newborns and infants
Marina Vafeiadi
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 121:125-30. 2013
..Anogenital distance in animals is used as a measure of fetal androgen action. Prenatal exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in rodents causes reproductive changes in male offspring and decreases anogenital distance...
- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in breast milk and neuropsychological development in infants
Mireia Gascon
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 120:1760-5. 2012
..There is increasing interest in the potential effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) on children's neuropsychological development, but only a few small studies have evaluated such effects...
- The INTERPHONE study: design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population
Elisabeth Cardis
International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372, Lyon, Cedex 08, France
Eur J Epidemiol 22:647-64. 2007
..Particular attention was paid to estimating the amount and direction of potential recall and participation biases and their impact on the study results...
- The effects of recall errors and of selection bias in epidemiologic studies of mobile phone use and cancer risk
Martine Vrijheid
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 16:371-84. 2006
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- Urinary concentrations of phthalates and phenols in a population of Spanish pregnant women and children
Lidia Casas
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Int 37:858-66. 2011
..Phthalate and phenol exposure is prevalent among the general population and of potential concern for pregnant women and children because of their suspected susceptibility to endocrine effects...
- Prenatal organochlorine compound exposure, rapid weight gain, and overweight in infancy
Michelle A Mendez
Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 119:272-8. 2011
..Although it has been hypothesized that fetal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may increase obesity risk, empirical data are limited, and it is uncertain how early in life any effects may begin...
- DDE in mothers' blood during pregnancy and lower respiratory tract infections in their infants
Jordi Sunyer
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Epidemiology 21:729-35. 2010
..Our aim was to study the association between prenatal levels of DDE and lower respiratory tract infection in infants independently from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other organochlorines...
- Dietary and sociodemographic determinants of bisphenol A urine concentrations in pregnant women and children
Maribel Casas
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain Hospital del Mar, Research Institute IMIM, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain Electronic address
Environ Int 56:10-8. 2013
..Studies identifying sources of exposure would benefit from repeat BPA measurements and questionnaires specifically focused on dietary and packaging sources...
- Environmental risk factors of pregnancy outcomes: a summary of recent meta-analyses of epidemiological studies
Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Dr, Aiguader 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
Environ Health 12:6. 2013
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- Climate extremes and the length of gestation
Payam Dadvand
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 119:1449-53. 2011
..Objectives: We investigated the impact of maternal short-term exposure to extreme ambient heat on the length of pregnancy...
- Effects of persistent organic pollutants on the developing respiratory and immune systems: a systematic review
Mireia Gascon
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Environ Int 52:51-65. 2013
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- Exposure to brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated compounds, phthalates and phenols in European birth cohorts: ENRIECO evaluation, first human biomonitoring results, and recommendations
Maribel Casas
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Int J Hyg Environ Health 216:230-42. 2013
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- Anogenital distances in newborns and children from Spain and Greece: predictors, tracking and reliability
Eleni Papadopoulou
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 27:89-99. 2013
..We examined anogenital distance measurements and their predictors in males and females and further estimated the reliability of these measurements...
- Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies: review and meta-analyses
Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
Environ Health Perspect 117:1486-93. 2009
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