Sentences with phrase «environmental lead exposure»

Environmental Lead Exposure and Progression of Chronic Renal Diseases in Patients without Diabetes.

«Public health officials, legislators and clinicians should continue efforts and allocate resources to further decrease environmental lead exposure to children in all communities at risk.»

The researchers found that a 10-fold increase in PBDE concentrations in early pregnancy, when the fetal brain is developing, was associated with a 4.5 IQ decrement, which is comparable with the impact of environmental lead exposure.

Not exact matches

Exposure to prenatal or environmental toxins (such as lead paint) may also play a role.

Environmental Working Group: «Health / Toxics: Lead,» «Reducing your exposure to PBDEs in your home,» «Toxic Fire Retardants in American Homes.»

The Environmental Defense Fund isn't recommending that parents avoid certain foods or brands for their children but does advise that they consult their pediatrician about all means of lead exposure.

A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has for the first time found that a mother's higher exposure to some common environmental contaminants was associated with more frequent and vigorous fetal motor activity.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

«Early life exposure to lead causes a long lasting impact on gut microbiome, and the change of gut microbiome may partially contribute to the increased body weight in adult life,» said lead author Chuanwu Xi, associate professor of environmental health science.

Exposure to PAHs early in an organism's life cycle can also lead to infertility and a host of developmental problems, says Jeffrey Short, an environmental chemist based in Juneau, Alaska, who works with the marine conservation organization Oceana.

The lead exposure was highest among people who consumed not only venison, but also birds and other game, according to the study published last month in the journal Environmental Research.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to shut down a grant - making center that supports leading - edge research on human exposure to pollution and its effects.

Further, it demonstrates the potential to ultimately prevent conditions like ADHD by understanding how genes and environmental exposures combine,» says lead researcher Joel Nigg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the OHSU School of Medicine.

The scientists do not purport that lead is the only cause of ADHD symptoms, nor does the research indicate that lead exposure will guarantee an ADHD diagnosis; rather, the study demonstrates that environmental pollutants, such as lead, do play a role in the explanation of ADHD.

Because of the growing concerns about mercury exposure, Fernandez is leading a project at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, to study the metal's effects on human and environmental health in the Amazon.

Professor Nicola Cherry, originally from the University of Manchester but now at the University of Alberta, commented on a recent companion paper published by the group in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: «In addition to cannabis exposure shown in this paper, we also know that men exposed to paint strippers and lead are also at risk of having sperm with poor morphology.»

First, we experience more cumulative exposure to the things that mess with DNA in ways that can lead to malignant growth: sunlight, radiation, environmental toxins and noxious by - products of metabolism.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Because most cases of Parkinson's disease appear to be at least partially caused by environmental factors such as pesticide exposure, these findings support the approach that targeting α - synuclein could slow or stop the progression of Parkinson's in most people with the disease, said study lead author Jeff Bronstein, a professor of neurology and director of movement disorders at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

«For the majority of births, there is no statistically identifiable impact of pesticide exposure on birth outcome,» said lead author Ashley Larsen, an assistant professor in UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

«Green design incorporates many aspects that could reduce environmental exposures and improve health, such as the removal of pollution sources and the addition of exhaust ventilation,» said lead author Meryl Colton, a researcher at Harvard Chan School when the study was done and now a medical student at the University of Colorado.

For lead exposure, for example, they used lead levels in drinking water or soil, and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency model that translates the data into projected blood lead levels.

«Because we had access to these rats that were bred for certain traits, and were able to control for environmental factors, such as the amount of drug exposure, we could assess differences in the brain both before and after the rats became addicted,» says Shelly Flagel, Ph.D., lead author of the new study and an assistant professor of psychiatry at U-M.

There are also signs that rats impaired by lead exposure can regain their neurological capacity by environmental enrichment.

«Studies in rats have shown that the effects of lead exposure can be attenuated by environmental stimulation,» Lanphear says.

«It involves toxicology, how chemicals go from air to water, exposure routes of environmental contaminants, and how to measure each one, leading to controls on how chemicals move through the environment.

Levels of neonicotinoids that we found in this study fall into ranges that could lead to detrimental health effects in bees, including CCD,» said Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

Ute Kraus and colleagues of the Environmental Risks research group led by Dr. Alexandra Schneider at the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have now studied the effects of exposure to our everyday background noise.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

«If confirmed in humans, our study could greatly impact how people view exposure to environmental tobacco toxins,» said Manuela Martins - Green, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside and the lead author of the study.

«Most buildings aren't designed with people's health in mind,» says lead author Robin Dodson, an environmental exposure scientist at Silent Spring Institute.

Associations have been described previously between environmental toxins, body weight, and diabetes [8], [51] leading to suggestions that exposure to certain environmental pollutants may initiate or exacerbate the development of obesity [17] and associated health problems [33].

«Many scientists have studied similar effects from exposure to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, but now we're seeing it from chemicals found in common road salt and leaf litter,» said Max Lambert, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Abecasis leads the University's Biostatistics department, which is training a new generation of scientists and making contributions to the statistical and computational machinery for the analysis of diverse types of biomedical data — including not only genomic data but also electronic health records, registry data and health surveys, a variety of imaging data types, and environmental exposures, among others.

It is thought to be useful in situations involving exposure to environmental toxins such as cigarette smoke or air pollution, heavy metals such as mercury, lead or arsenic in the blood.

It's not entirely clear what causes ADHD, but evidence shows it may be linked to genetics, certain environmental factors (such as lead exposure), or both.

Individuals are exposed to heavy metals through environmental exposure including lead soldering, metal amalgams, working in industry (mining, oil and gas, welding, etc.) and from food sources including the consumption of ocean fish.

A recent study indicates that modified citrus pectin promotes healthy urinary excretion of common, mild environmental exposures of mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead and tin without altering excretion of other minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron, copper and selenium.

Environmental exposure to lead and progressive diabetic nephropathy in patients with type II diabetes.

Environmental Exposure to Lead and Progression of Chronic Renal Diseases: A Four - Year Prospective Longitudinal Study.

Very Important for Cirrhosis of the Liver, Emphysema, Environmental Toxicity, Heart Attack, Jaundice, Kidney Stones, Lead Poisoning, Lupus, Nail Problems, Radiation Exposure, and Tuberculosis.

With constant exposure to environmental damage such as the sun or extreme washing which leads to dehydration wrinkling accompanied by other symptoms of aging can show up as early as your 20s.

«It is important to understand the factors leading to impaired liver function — our lifestyle choices including poor diet, stress and lack of exercise, as well as exposure to environmental pollutants that produce tissue - damaging free radicals,» says Dr. Melissa Palmer, clinical professor and medical director of hepatology at New York University Plainview.

Besides the availability of food, environmental exposures also lead to epigenetic changes.

Dr. Mark Mitchell of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice explains that lead accumulates in the body over time and applying contaminated lipsticks several times a day can lead to significant exposure to the metal.

These could include the impacts of environmental exposure to harmful substances such as lead and arsenic or the effects of malnutrition on brain health.

Radical changes in ecology can lead to unexpected viral proliferation and infection via a number of routes — greater human exposure, changes in wildlife populations, changes in environmental factors that encourage viral proliferation.

Heartbreaking news stories tell of the lost potential of children who lose their chance to go on to school or fail to thrive more generally due to their exposure to high environmental levels of lead.