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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yun Cao, Mengmeng Liu, Wenying Zhang, Xiaotong Zhang, Xu Li, Chao Wang, Weiyi Zhang, Hang Liu, Xianliang Wang
Health hazards caused by metal exposure in household dust are concerning environmental health problems. Exposure to toxic metals in household dust imposes unclear but solid health risks, especially for children. In this multicenter cross-sectional study, a total of 250 household dust samples were collected from ten stratified cities in China (Panjin, Shijiazhuang, Qingdao, Lanzhou, Luoyang, Ningbo, Xi'an, Wuxi, Mianyang, Shenzhen) between April 2018 and March 2019. Questionnaire was conducted to gather information on individuals' living environment and health status in real-life situations...
March 15, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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J Barkoski, E Van Fleet, A Liu, S Ramsey, R K Kwok, A K Miller
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity, with significant consequences that impact human health. A scoping review was conducted to: (a) understand wildfire-related health effects, (b) identify and describe environmental exposure and health outcome data sources used to research the impacts of wildfire exposures on health, and (c) identify gaps and opportunities to leverage exposure and health data to advance research. A literature search was conducted in PubMed and a sample of 83 articles met inclusion criteria...
March 2024: GeoHealth
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuzhao Hu, Shuai Wu, Changcai Wu, Zhimin Wei, Jun Ning, Dongmei She
Continuous exposure to airborne pesticides causes their gradual accumulation in the human body, eventually posing a threat to human health. To the best of our knowledge, risk assessment study of pesticide non-occupational exposure to residents in agricultural areas has not been conducted in China. In this study, air samples (gas and dust) were collected from inside and outside residences of seven households and an area near the field in a grain-growing area (wheat and maize rotation) for eight months, and the pesticides present were examined both qualitatively and quantitatively...
March 13, 2024: Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
MyDzung T Chu, Andrew Fenelon, Gary Adamkiewicz, Ami R Zota
BACKGROUND: Federal housing assistance is an important policy tool to ensure housing security for low-income households. Less is known about its impact on residential environmental exposures, particularly lead. OBJECTIVES: We conducted a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between federal housing assistance and blood lead levels (BLLs) in a nationally representative US sample age 6 y and older eligible for housing assistance. METHODS: We used the 1999-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) linked with US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative records to assess BLLs of NHANES participants with concurrent HUD housing assistance (i...
March 2024: Environmental Health Perspectives
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Nicole E Sieck, Meg Bruening, Irene van Woerden, Corrie Whisner, Devon C Payne-Sturges
BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in evidence-based interventions, programs, and policies to mitigate exposures to bisphenols and phthalates and in using implementation science frameworks to evaluate hypotheses regarding the importance of specific approaches to individual or household behavior change or institutions adopting interventions. OBJECTIVES: This scoping review aimed to identify, categorize, and summarize the effects of behavioral, clinical, and policy interventions focused on exposure to the most widely used and studied bisphenols [bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), and bisphenol F (BPF)] and phthalates with an implementation science lens...
March 2024: Environmental Health Perspectives
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Aderonke Ayodele, Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi
This exploratory narrative review paper delves into the intricate interplay between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure, sociodemographic factors, and the influence of stressors in the context of endometrial cancer. PFAS, ubiquitous environmental contaminants notorious for their persistence in the ecosystem, have garnered attention for their potential to disrupt endocrine systems and provoke immune responses. We comprehensively examine the various sources of PFAS exposure, encompassing household items, water, air, and soil, thus shedding light on the multifaceted routes through which individuals encounter these compounds...
February 28, 2024: Cancers
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Tarique Hussain, Elsayed Metwally, Ghulam Murtaza, Dildar Hussain Kalhoro, Muhammad Ismail Chughtai, Bie Tan, Ali Dogan Omur, Shakeel Ahmed Tunio, Muhammad Shahzad Akbar, Muhammad Saleem Kalhoro
Humans and wildlife, including domesticated animals, are exposed to a myriad of environmental contaminants that are derived from various human activities, including agricultural, household, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. Excessive exposure to pesticides, heavy metals, and phthalates consequently causes the overproduction of reactive oxygen species. The equilibrium between reactive oxygen species and the antioxidant system is preserved to maintain cellular redox homeostasis. Mitochondria play a key role in cellular function and cell survival...
2024: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
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Darpan Das, Sohail Ahmad, Joshua Kirshner
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Almost 3 billion people worldwide use solid fuel for cooking and heating. This review examines (i) household energy practices and infrastructures and their influence on fuel usage in different contexts; (ii) barriers in adoption of household clean energy technologies and uses in diverse settings and population groups and (iii) potential air pollution exposure reduction in homes through using processed fuel. RECENT FINDINGS: Population health burden from solid fuel combustion-derived particulate air pollution has been estimated in several low- and middle-income countries...
March 12, 2024: Current Environmental Health Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arthur Elessa Etuman, Taos Benoussaïd, Hélène Charreire, Isabelle Coll
SCIENTIFIC QUESTION: With the new individual- and activity-based approaches to simulating exposure to air pollutants, exposure models must now provide synthetic populations that realistically reflect the demographic profiles of individuals in an urban territory. Demographic profiles condition the behavior of individuals in urban space (activities, mobility) and determine the resulting risks of exposure and environmental inequalities. In this context, there is a strong need to determine the relevance of the population modeling methods to reproduce the combinations of socio-demographic parameters in a population from the existing databases...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yiyi Li, Juntao Ren, Rusong Zhao, Lin Xu, Yaqi Cai
Phenylmethylsiloxanes, as modified products of dimethylsiloxanes, have been used in personal care products (PCPs) and household appliances, with indoor dust serving as one potential reservoir due to their particle-binding properties. This study measured six isomers of two phenylmethylsiloxanes (P3 and P4) in PCPs (<LOD-381 μg/g, df = 38-43 %, n = 58), indoor dust (<LOD-158 ng/g, df = 33-65 %, n = 103), and outdoor soil samples (<LOD-3...
March 5, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shohreh F Farzan, Elizabeth Kamai, Dayane Duenas Barahona, Yoshira Van Horne Ornelas, Christopher Zuidema, Michelle Wong, Christian Torres, Esther Bejarano, Edmund Seto, Paul English, Luis Olmedo, Jill Johnston
BACKGROUND: The Children's Assessing Imperial Valley Respiratory Health and the Environment (AIRE) study is a prospective cohort study of environmental influences on respiratory health in a rural, southeastern region of California (CA), which aims to longitudinally examine the contribution of a drying saline lake to adverse health impacts in children. OBJECTIVES: This cohort was established through a community-academic partnership with the goal of assessing the health effects of childhood exposures to wind-blown particulate matter (PM) and inform public health action...
March 7, 2024: Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Catlin I Powers, Linyan Li, Majid Ezzati, James P Butler, Corwin M Zigler, John D Spengler
BACKGROUND: Household air pollution (HAP) is a major risk factor of non-communicable diseases, causing millions of premature deaths each year in developing nations. Populations living at high altitudes are particularly vulnerable to HAP and associated health outcomes. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to explore the relationships between activity patterns, HAP, and an HAP biomarker among 100 Himalayan nomadic households during both cooking and heating-only periods. METHODS: Household CO was monitored in 100 rural homes in Qinghai, China, at 3500 m on the Himalayan Plateau among Himalayan nomads...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
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Sital Uprety, Isaac Ngo, Marika Maggos, Bipin Dangol, Samendra P Sherchan, Joanna L Shisler, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H Nguyen
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions are the most effective in reducing diarrheal disease severity and prevalence. However, very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of WaSH intervention in reducing pathogen presence and concentration. In this study, we employed a microfluidic PCR approach to quantify twenty bacterial pathogens in water (n = 360), hands (n = 180), and fomite (n = 540) samples collected in rural households of Nepal to assess the pathogen exposures and the effect of WaSH intervention on contamination and exposure rates...
March 4, 2024: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiali Ge, Xiangyu Hou, Li Liu, Qing Deng, Bibai Du, Lixi Zeng
Vulcanization accelerators (VAs) serve as crucial additives in synthetic rubber on a global scale. Despite their widespread use, the environmental presence, distribution, and associated exposure risks of VAs remain poorly understood. This study compiled a target list and conducted a screening for eight classes encompassing 42 VAs in diverse urban dust samples from South China. A total of 40 of the 42 target VAs were detectable across all four studied regions, among which 30 were identified for the first time in the environment...
March 5, 2024: Environmental Science & Technology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Richard J Hewitt, Eduardo Caramés, Rafael Borge
This study explores the potential correlation between income and exposure to air pollution for the city of Madrid, Spain and its neighboring municipalities. Madrid is a well-known European air pollution hotspot with a high mortality burden attributable to nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ). Statistical analyses were carried out using electoral district level data on gross household income (GHI), and NO2 and PM2.5 concentrations in air obtained from a mesoscale air quality model for the study area...
March 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ashleigh N Tindle, Samantha L Braman, Brenna M Swafford, Lauren A Trepanier
BACKGROUND: Multicentric lymphoma (ML) in dogs resembles non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in humans. Human NHL is associated with multiple environmental exposures, including to radon and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to determine whether ML in dogs was associated with environmental radon or proximity to horizontal oil and drilling (fracking), a source of VOC pollution. METHODS: We identified dogs from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study that developed ML (n = 52) along with matched controls (n = 104)...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eun A Jang, Kyu Nam Kim, Sang Hyuk Bae
This study analyzed the relationship between urine concentrations of phthalate metabolites (UCOM) and personal care products (PCPs) used in adults and examined the change in UCOM according to the usage frequency of PCPs based on raw data from the 3rd Korean National Environmental Health Survey conducted between 2015 and 2017. The relationship between PCP use frequency and UCOM was analyzed using multiple regression analysis, adjusting for baseline factors. The regression model consisted of a Crude Model with log-transformed UCOM before and after adjustment for urine creatinine concentrations...
March 2, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Izzuddin M Aris, Pi-I D Lin, Allison J Wu, Dana Dabelea, Barry M Lester, Rosalind J Wright, Margaret R Karagas, Jean M Kerver, Anne L Dunlop, Christine L M Joseph, Carlos A Camargo, Jody M Ganiban, Rebecca J Schmidt, Rita S Strakovsky, Cindy T McEvoy, Alison E Hipwell, T Michael O'Shea, Lacey A McCormack, Luis E Maldonado, Zhongzheng Niu, Assiamira Ferrara, Yeyi Zhu, Rana F Chehab, Eliza W Kinsey, Nicole R Bush, Ruby H N Nguyen, Kecia N Carroll, Emily S Barrett, Kristen Lyall, Lauren M Sims-Taylor, Leonardo Trasande, Jocelyn M Biagini, Carrie V Breton, Marisa A Patti, Brent Coull, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Michele R Hacker, Tamarra James-Todd, Emily Oken, Smith Pb, Newby Lk, Jacobson Lp, Catellier Dj, Fuselier G, Gershon R, Cella D
BACKGROUND: Limited access to healthy foods, resulting from residence in neighborhoods with low food access or from household food insecurity, is a public health concern. Contributions of these measures during pregnancy to birth outcomes remain understudied. OBJECTIVE: We examined associations of neighborhood food access and individual food insecurity during pregnancy with birth outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: We used data from 53 cohorts participating in the nationwide Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study...
February 29, 2024: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Osika Tripathi, Humberto Parada, Yuyan Shi, Georg E Matt, Penelope J E Quintana, Sandy Liles, John Bellettiere
BACKGROUND: Perception of health risk can influence household rules, but little is known about how the perception of harm from cannabis secondhand smoke (cSHS) is related to having a complete ban on in-home cannabis smoking. We examined this association among a nationally representative sample of United States adults. METHODS: Respondents were 21,381 adults from the cross-sectional Marijuana Use and Environmental Survey recruited from December 2019-February 2020...
March 2, 2024: BMC Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anissa Mary Thomas Thattil, Twinkle Agrawal, Abdul Kader Surti, Stallon Sebastian, Kiyana Mirza, George Jacob, Farah Naaz Fathima
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate feces disposal leads to environmental contamination, and increases the risk of exposure to children. We aimed to estimate the proportion of rural households with knowledge and practice of safe management of feces (SMoF) among under-five children and to identify associated factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in eight villages in Bengaluru Urban district over 2 months, using a face-validated semi-structured interview schedule...
2024: Indian Journal of Community Medicine
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