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A 50-year follow-up of childhood plumbism. Hypertension, renal function, and hemoglobin levels among survivors

scientific article published in June 1991

A Western diet pattern is associated with higher concentrations of blood and bone lead among middle-aged and elderly men

journal article published in 2017

A combined ecological and epidemiologic investigation of metal exposures amongst Indigenous peoples near the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala

scientific article published on 16 October 2010

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

A dopamine receptor (DRD2) but not dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene polymorphism is associated with neurocognitive development of Mexican preschool children with lead exposure

scientific article published on 17 May 2011

A novel look at racial health disparities: the interaction between social disadvantage and environmental health.

scientific article

A prospective study of bone lead concentration and death from all causes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer in the Department of Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

A safe strategy to decrease fetal lead exposure in a woman with chronic intoxication

scientific article published in August 2010

Alzheimer’s Disease and Environmental Exposure to Lead: The Epidemiologic Evidence and Potential Role of Epigenetics ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Ambient sulfur dioxide levels associated with reduced risk of initial outpatient visits for tuberculosis: A population based time series analysis.

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Antinuclear antibody prevalence in a general pediatric cohort from Mexico City: discordance between immunofluorescence and multiplex assays.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Antioxidant vitamins and magnesium and the risk of hearing loss in the US general population

scientific article

Approaching a collaborative research agenda for health systems performance in circumpolar regions

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Asbestos-Related Diseases

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Assessing windows of susceptibility to lead-induced cognitive deficits in Mexican children

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Association between 24-hour urinary cadmium and pulmonary function among community-exposed men: the VA Normative Aging Study

scientific article published on September 2008

Association between iron deficiency and low-level lead poisoning in an urban primary care clinic

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Association between prenatal lead exposure and blood pressure in children

scientific article published on 27 September 2011

Association between the plasma/whole blood lead ratio and history of spontaneous abortion: a nested cross-sectional study

journal article published in 2007

Association between urinary 3, 5, 6-trichloro-2-pyridinol, a metabolite of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl, and serum T4 and TSH in NHANES 1999-2002

scientific article

Association of cumulative lead exposure with Parkinson's disease

scientific article published in November 2010

Association of maternal blood manganese levels and infant birth weight

journal article published in 2009

Associations between extreme precipitation and gastrointestinal-related hospital admissions in Chennai, India

scientific article

Associations of cumulative Pb exposure and longitudinal changes in Mini-Mental Status Exam scores, global cognition and domains of cognition: The VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2017

Associations of iron metabolism genes with blood manganese levels: a population-based study with validation data from animal models

scientific article

Associations of toenail arsenic, cadmium, mercury, manganese, and lead with blood pressure in the normative aging study

scientific article

Attentional Correlates of Dentin and Bone Lead Levels in Adolescents

scientific article published in April 1994

Bias correction by use of errors-in-variables regression models in studies with K-X-ray fluorescence bone lead measurements

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Biased Exposure-Health Effect Estimates from Selection in Cohort Studies: Are Environmental Studies at Particular Risk?

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Big Data and Population Health: Focusing on the Health Impacts of the Social, Physical, and Economic Environment

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Biomarkers of lead exposure and DNA methylation within retrotransposons

scientific article

Bisphenol A and other environmental risk factors for prostate cancer in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Bisphenol a exposure in Mexico City and risk of prematurity: a pilot nested case control study

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

Black-white blood pressure disparities: depressive symptoms and differential vulnerability to blood lead

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Blood Lead Levels in Relation to Paint and Dust Lead Levels: The Lead-Safe Cambridge Program ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Blood lead, bone lead and child attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-like behavior

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Bone lead and endogenous exposure in an environmentally exposed elderly population: the normative aging study

scientific article published in July 2009

Bone lead as a biological marker in epidemiologic studies of chronic toxicity: conceptual paradigms ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Bone lead as a new biologic marker of lead dose: recent findings and implications for public health ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Bone lead level prediction models and their application to examine the relationship of lead exposure and hypertension in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article

Burma: Health and human rights

scientific article published in The Lancet

COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type

scientific article published in 2024

Cadmium exposure and cardiovascular disease in the 2005 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Childhood Blood Lead Levels and Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Cross-Sectional Study of Mexican Children

scientific article published on 08 December 2015

Childhood and adult socioeconomic position, cumulative lead levels, and pessimism in later life: the VA Normative Aging Study

scientific article

Clinical Features and Patient Outcomes of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Comparison of digestion procedures and methods for quantification of trace lead in breast milk by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

scientific article published in January 2013

Correlates of bone and blood lead levels in carpenters

scientific article published in August 1994

Corrigendum to "APOE ε4 allele modifies the association of lead exposure with age-related cognitive decline in older individuals" [Environ. Res. 151 (2016) 101-105].

scientific article

Critical windows of fetal lead exposure: adverse impacts on length of gestation and risk of premature delivery

scientific article published in November 2010

Cumulative community-level lead exposure and pulse pressure: the Normative Aging Study ⬇️

journal article published in 2007

Cumulative exposure to lead and cognition in persons with Parkinson's disease

scientific article

Cumulative exposure to lead in relation to cognitive function in older women

scientific article published in April 2009

Cumulative lead exposure and age at menopause in the Nurses' Health Study cohort

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Cumulative lead exposure and age-related hearing loss: the VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2010

Cumulative lead exposure and tooth loss in men: the normative aging study

scientific article published in October 2009

Cumulative lead exposure in community-dwelling adults and fine motor function: comparing standard and novel tasks in the VA normative aging study

scientific article

Cumulative lead exposure is associated with reduced olfactory recognition performance in elderly men: The Normative Aging Study

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Dentine biomarkers of prenatal and early childhood exposure to manganese, zinc and lead and childhood behavior

scientific article published on 08 September 2018

Determinants of Blood Lead Levels across the Menopausal Transition

scientific article published in September 2000

Determining prenatal, early childhood and cumulative long-term lead exposure using micro-spatial deciduous dentine levels

scientific article

Dietary patterns, bone lead and incident coronary heart disease among middle-aged to elderly men

journal article published in 2019

Differential association of lead on length by zinc status in two-year old Mexican children

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Early Life Exposure in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) Project

journal article published in 2019

Early introduction and cumulative consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages during the pre-school period and risk of obesity at 8-14 years of age.

scientific article

Early postnatal blood manganese levels and children's neurodevelopment.

scientific article published in July 2010

Effect modification by transferrin C2 polymorphism on lead exposure, hemoglobin levels, and IQ.

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Effect modification by vitamin D receptor genetic polymorphisms in the association between cumulative lead exposure and pulse pressure: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Effect of calcium supplementation on blood lead levels in pregnancy: a randomized placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 02 September 2008

Effect of calcium supplementation on bone resorption in pregnancy and the early postpartum: a randomized controlled trial in Mexican women

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Effect of iron deficiency anemia on lead distribution after intravenous dosing in rats

scientific article published in July 1998

Effect of maternal bone lead on length and head circumference of newborns and 1-month-old infants

scientific article published on September 2002

Effect of repeated occupational exposure to lead, cessation of exposure, and chelation on levels of lead in bone

scientific article published in 1991

Effects of duration and timing of prenatal stress on hippocampal myelination and synaptophysin expression

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Environmental cadmium and lead exposures and hearing loss in U.S. adults: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 to 2004

journal article published in 2012

Exposure to bisphenol A and other phenols in neonatal intensive care unit premature infants

scientific article published on 10 December 2008

Forced expiratory volume in 1 second and cognitive aging in men.

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

From Air Pollution to the Anthropocene and Planetary Health. Implications for Clinicians, Researchers, and Society

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Fruit, vegetable, and fish consumption and heart rate variability: the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Genetic polymorphism at BCL2 as a predictor for rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone efficacy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Genome-wide DNA methylation differences between late-onset Alzheimer's disease and cognitively normal controls in human frontal cortex.

scientific article published on January 2012

HFE H63D polymorphism as a modifier of the effect of cumulative lead exposure on pulse pressure: the Normative Aging Study

scientific article

HFE gene variants modify the association between maternal lead burden and infant birthweight: a prospective birth cohort study in Mexico City, Mexico

scientific article published on 26 July 2010

Head injury at early ages is associated with risk of Parkinson's disease

journal article published in 2016

Health risks from lead-based ammunition in the environment

scientific article published in June 2013

Hemoglobin, lead exposure, and intelligence quotient: effect modification by the DRD2 Taq IA polymorphism

scientific article

How cumulative risks warrant a shift in our approach to racial health disparities: the case of lead, stress, and hypertension

scientific article published in October 2011

Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions

scientific article

Improvements in the calibration of 109Cd K X-ray fluorescence systems for measuring bone lead in vivo

scientific article published in December 1994

Improving and Expanding Estimates of the Global Burden of Disease Due to Environmental Health Risk Factors

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

In Vivo Bone Lead Measurement in Suburban Teenagers ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Influence of bone resorption on the mobilization of lead from bone among middle-aged and elderly men: the Normative Aging Study ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2001

Influence of prenatal lead exposure on genomic methylation of cord blood DNA.

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Interaction of stress, lead burden, and age on cognition in older men: the VA Normative Aging Study

scientific article

Interaction of the d-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase polymorphism and lead burden on cognitive function: the VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2008

Iron metabolism genes, low-level lead exposure, and QT interval

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

Lead concentrations in relation to multiple biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: the Normative Aging Study

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Lead exposure and behavior among young children in Chennai, India

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Lead exposure and fear-potentiated startle in the VA Normative Aging Study: a pilot study of a novel physiological approach to investigating neurotoxicant effects

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Lead exposure and rate of change in cognitive function in older women

scientific article published in February 2014

Lead exposure and tremor among older men: the VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2015

Lead exposure and visual-motor abilities in children from Chennai, India

scientific article

Lead exposure, B vitamins, and plasma homocysteine in men 55 years of age and older: the VA normative aging study

scientific article

Lead in candy consumed and blood lead levels of children living in Mexico City

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Lead levels and ischemic heart disease in a prospective study of middle-aged and elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2007

Lead poisoning from mobilization of bone stores during thyrotoxicosis

journal article published in 1994

Lead-related genetic loci, cumulative lead exposure and incident coronary heart disease: the Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2016

Long-Term Health and Employment Outcomes of Occupational Asthma and Their Determinants ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Longitudinal changes in bone lead levels: the VA Normative Aging Study

scientific article published in August 2011

Longitudinal relationship between dentin lead levels in childhood and bone lead levels in young adulthood

scientific article published in September 1996

Low-level cumulative lead and resistant hypertension: a prospective study of men participating in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2018

Maternal Fish Intake During Pregnancy, Blood Mercury Levels, and Child Cognition at Age 3 Years in a US Cohort

scientific article published in September 2008

Maternal MTHFR genotype and haplotype predict deficits in early cognitive development in a lead-exposed birth cohort in Mexico City

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Maternal blood, plasma, and breast milk lead: lactational transfer and contribution to infant exposure

scientific article published in January 2014

Maternal iron metabolism gene variants modify umbilical cord blood lead levels by gene-environment interaction: a birth cohort study

scientific article

Mercury levels in pregnant women, children, and seafood from Mexico City

scientific article

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase ( MTHFR) C677T, A1298C and G1793A genotypes, and the relationship between maternal folate intake, tibia lead and infant size at birth

scientific article published on 2 April 2009

Modification of the association between lead exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by iron and oxidative stress related gene polymorphisms

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Modifying roles of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms on the association between cumulative lead exposure and cognitive function

scientific article

Mortality Associated with Ambient Exposure in India: Results from the Million Death Study

scientific article published in September 2022

Occupational determinants of cumulative lead exposure: analysis of bone lead among men in the VA Normative Aging Study

journal article published in 2014

Occupational noise exposure assessment using O*NET and its application to a study of hearing loss in the US general population

journal article published in 2012

Parent-adolescent interaction and risk of adolescent internet addiction: a population-based study in Shanghai

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Personal characteristics related to the risk of adolescent internet addiction: a survey in Shanghai, China

scientific article

Pollution and health: a progress update

scientific article published in 2022

Predictors of plasma lead among lithographic print shop workers in Mexico City

journal article published in 2004

Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6-12 Years of Age in Mexico

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Prenatal Lead Exposure Modifies the Impact of Maternal Self-Esteem on Children's Inattention Behavior

scientific article

Prenatal Maternal Occupational Exposure and Postnatal Child Exposure to Elemental Mercury

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Prenatal fluoride exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children at 6-12 years of age in Mexico City

scientific article published in 2018

Prenatal lead exposure and weight of 0- to 5-year-old children in Mexico city ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Prenatal urinary phthalate metabolites levels and neurodevelopment in children at two and three years of age.

scientific article published on 05 June 2013

Proceeding report of the Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA).

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Prospective cohort study of lead exposure and electrocardiographic conduction disturbances in the Department of Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study

scientific article published in July 2011

Quality control and statistical modeling for environmental epigenetics: a study on in utero lead exposure and DNA methylation at birth

scientific article

RETRACTED: Paraoxonase I polymorphisms and attention/hyperactivity in school-age children from Mexico City, Mexico

retracted scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Reactive airways dysfunction after exposure to teargas

scientific article published in The Lancet

Reduction of cooking oil fume exposure following an engineering intervention in Chinese restaurants

scientific article published on 30 September 2010

Relation of cumulative low-level lead exposure to depressive and phobic anxiety symptom scores in middle-age and elderly women

scientific article published in June 2012

Relations of bone and blood lead to cognitive function: the VA Normative Aging Study

scientific article published in January 1998

Relationship of Hemoglobin To Occupational Exposure To Motor Vehicle Exhaust

scientific article published in September 1996

Relationship of bone and blood lead levels to psychiatric symptoms: the Normative Aging Study ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Relationships between lead biomarkers and diurnal salivary cortisol indices in pregnant women from Mexico City: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 10 June 2014

Reply: Comment on "From Air Pollution to the Anthropocene and Planetary Health"

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Season modifies the relationship between bone and blood lead levels: the Normative Aging Study

scientific article published in September 2002

Socio-demographic predictors of prepulse inhibition: A prospective study in children and adolescents from Mexico City

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Statistical Methods to Study Timing of Vulnerability with Sparsely Sampled Data on Environmental Toxicants

scientific article published in 2010

Statistical methods to study timing of vulnerability with sparsely sampled data on environmental toxicants

scientific article

Tear gas--harassing agent or toxic chemical weapon?

scientific article published in August 1989

Tear gas--harassing agent or toxic chemical weapon?

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

The Use of Chemical Weapons

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

The associations between lead exposure at multiple sensitive life periods and dental caries risks in permanent teeth

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

The influence of bone and blood lead on plasma lead levels in environmentally exposed adults ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Uncovering neurodevelopmental windows of susceptibility to manganese exposure using dentine microspatial analyses

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Urinary 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPY) in pregnant women from Mexico City: distribution, temporal variability, and relationship with child attention and hyperactivity

scientific article

Urinary 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA) levels among pregnant women in Mexico City: Distribution and relationships with child neurodevelopment

scientific article published in May 2016

Urinary and plasma fluoride levels in pregnant women from Mexico City

journal article published in 2016

Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to preterm birth in Mexico city

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Using ecological data to estimate a regression model for individual data: the association between arsenic in drinking water and incidence of skin cancer.

scientific article

Validation of K-XRF bone lead measurement in young adults ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1995

Variants in iron metabolism genes predict higher blood lead levels in young children

scientific article

Windows of lead exposure sensitivity, attained height, and body mass index at 48 months

scientific article published on 28 January 2012

X-Ray Fluorescence Measurements of Lead Burden in Subjects with Low-Level Community Lead Exposure

scientific article published in December 1990

XRF-measured bone lead (Pb) as a biomarker for Pb exposure and toxicity among children diagnosed with Pb poisoning

journal article published in 2016

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