Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

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Publications

Please see recent children's environmental health-related articles from the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) staff. To view the articles within a category, select the name of the topic listed in green.

Artificial Turf

Claudio L. Synthetic turf: health debate takes root. Environ Health Perspect 116(3):A116-22, 2008.

Allergies/Asthma

Stingone JA, Claudio L. Disparities in allergy testing and health outcomes among urban children with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 122(4):748-53, 2008.

Claudio L, Stingone JA, Godbold J. Prevalence of childhood asthma in urban communities: the impact of ethnicity and income. Ann Epidemiol 16(5):332-40, 2006.

Chemicals in Breast Milk

Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Mattison D, McCally M, Garg A. Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: An overview. Environ Health Perspect 110:A313-A315, 2002.

Endocrine Disruptors

Wolff MS, Engel SE, Berkowitz Gs, et al. Prenatal Phenol and Phthalate Exposures and Birth Outcomes. Environ Health Perspect 116: 1092-1097, 2008.

Wolff MS, Teitelbaum S, WindhamG, et al. Pilot Study Of Urinary Biomarkers Of Phytoestrogens, Phthalates, and Phenols In Girls. Environ Health Perspect 115: 116-121, 2007.

Wolff MS. Endocrine disruptors: Challenges for Environmental Research in the 21st Century. Ann NY Acad Sci 1076: 228-238, 2006.

Flame Retardants (BFRs and PBDEs)

Morland KB, Landrigan PJ, Sjödin A, et al. Body Burdens of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers among Urban Anglers. Environ Health Perspect 113:1689-1692, 2005.

Healthy Homes

Rauh VA, Landrigan PJ, Claudio L. Housing and health: intersection of poverty and environmental exposures. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:276-88, 2008.

Health Policy/ Practice

Trasande L, Ziebold C, Schiff JS, Wallinga D, McGovern P, Oberg CN. The role of the environment in pediatric practice in Minnesota: attitudes, beliefs, and practices. Minn Med 91(9):36-9, 2008.

Landrigan PJ, Woolf AD, Gitterman B, et al. The Ambulatory Pediatric Association Fellowship in Pediatric Environmental Health: A Five-Year Assessment. Environ Health Perspect 115:1383-1387, 2007.

Trasande L, Boscarino J, Graber N, et al. The environment in pediatric practice: a study of New York pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices towards children's environmental health. J Urban Health 83(4):760-72, 2006.

Goldman L, Falk H, Landrigan PJ, Balk SJ, Reigart JR, Etzel RA. Environmental pediatrics and its impact on government health policy. Pediatrics 113(4 Suppl):1146-57, 2004.

Landrigan PJ, Kimmel CA, Correa A, Eskenazi B. Children's Health and the Environment: Public Health Issues and Challenges for Risk Assessment. Environ Health Perspect 112:257-265, 2003.

Landrigan PJ, Schechter CB, Lipton JM, Fahs MC, Schwartz J. Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: Estimates of morbidity, mortality and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer and developmental disabilities. Environ Health Perspect 110:721-728, 2002.

Lead

Fewtrell LJ, Prüss A, Landrigan PJ, Ayuso-Mateos JL. Estimating the global burden of disease from environmental lead exposure. Environ Res 94:120-133, 2004.

Galvez M, Vanable L, Forman JA, et al. Childhood lead poisoning from commercially manufactured French ceramic dinnerware--New York City, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 53(26):584-6, 2004.

Landrigan PJ, Todd AC: Direct measurement of lead in bone: A promising biomarker. JAMA 271:239-240, 1994.

Landrigan PJ, Baker EL, Feldman RH, et al. Increased lead absorption with anemia and slowed nerve conduction in children near a lead smelter. J Pediatr 89:904-910, 1976.

Landrigan PJ, Whitworth RH, Baloh RW, Barthel WF, Staehling NW, Rosenblum BF. Neuropsychological dysfunction in children with chronic low-level lead absorption. Lancet 1:708-712, 1975.

Landrigan PJ, Gehlbach SH, Rosenblum BF, et al. Epidemic lead absorption near an ore smelter: the role of particulate lead. New Engl J Med 292:123-129, 1975.

Mercury

Trasande L, Schechter C, Haynes KA, Landrigan PJ. Applying cost analyses to drive policy that protects children: mercury as a case study. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1076:911-23, 2006.

Trasande L, Schechter C, Landrigan PJ. Public Health and Economic Consequences of Environmental Methyl Mercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain. Environ Health Perspect 113:590-596, 2005.

Trasande L, Schechter C, Haynes KA, Landrigan PJ. Mental Retardation and Prenatal Methylmercury Toxicity. Am J Ind Med 153-158, 2005.

National Children's Study

Landrigan PJ, Trasande L, Thorpe LE, et al. The National Children's Study: A 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children. Pediatrics 118(5):2173-2186, 2006.

Landrigan P, Garg A, Droller DBJ. Assessing the Effects of Endocrine Disruptors in the National Children's Study. Environ Health Perspect 111:1678-1682, 2003.

Berkowitz GS, Wolff MS, Matte T, Susser E, Landrigan PJ. The rationale for a national prospective cohort study of environmental exposure and childhood development. Environ Res 85:59-68, 2000.

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Grandjean P, Landrigan PJ. Developmental Neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals: A silent pandemic. Lancet 368(9553):2167-2178, 2006.

Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Butler RN, Trasande L, Callan R, Droller D. Early Environmental Origins of Neurodegenerative Disease in Later Life. Environ Health Perspect 113:1230-1230, 2005.

Obesity

Galvez MP, Frieden TR, Landrigan PJ. Obesity in the 21st century. Environ Health Perspect 2003 Oct;111(13):A684-5.

Galvez MP, Morland K, Raines C, Kobil J, Siskind J, Godbold J, Brenner. B.  Race and food store availability in an inner-city neighbourhood. Public Health Nutr. 2008 Jun;11(6):624-31.

Pesticides

Morland K, Wolff M, Bopp R, Godbold J, Landrigan P. Fish consumption and body burden of organochlorines among lower Hudson urban anglers. Am J Ind Med 51(8):587-94, 2008.

Engel SE, Berkowitz GS, Dana B, et al. Prenatal Organophosphate Metabolite and Organochlorine Levels and Performance on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale in a Multiethnic Pregnancy Cohort. Amer J Epidemiol 165:1397-404, 2007.

Cohn BA, Wolff MS, Cirillo PM, Sholtz RI. DDT and Breast Cancer in Young Women: New Data on the Significance of Age at Exposure. Environ Health Perspect 115:1406-1414, 2007.

Wolff MS, Deych E, Ojo F, Berkowitz GS. Predictors of organochlorines in NYC pregnant women, 1998-2001. Environ res 97:170-177, 2005.

Fenske RA, Bradman A, Whyatt RM, Wolff MS, Barr DB. Lessons learned for the assessment of children's pesticide exposure: critical sampling and analytical issues for future studies. Environ Health Perspect 113(10):1455-62, 2005.

Brenner BL, Markowitz S, Rivera M, et al. Integrated Pest Management in an Urban Community - A Successful Partnership for Prevention. Environ Health Perspect 111:1649-1653, 2003.

Berkowitz GS, Obel J, Deych E, et al. Exposure to indoor pesticides during pregnancy in a multiethnic urban cohort. Environ Health Perspect 111:79-84, 2003.

Puberty

Wolff MS, Britton JA, Boguski L, et al. Environmental exposures and puberty in inner-city girls. Environ Res 107: 393-400, 2008.

World Trade Center -- Children and Pregnant Women

Landrigan PJ, Forman J, Galvez M, et al. Impact of September 11 World Trade Center disaster on children and pregnant women. Mt Sinai J Med 75(2):129-34, 2008.

Galvez MP, Peters R, Graber N, Forman J. Effective risk communication in children's environmental health: lessons learned from 9/11. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2007 Feb;54(1):33-46, viii.

Wolff MS, Teitelbaum SL, Lioy PJ, et al. Exposures among Pregnant Women near the World Trade Center Site on 9/11. Environ Health Perspect 113:739-48, 2005.

Engel SM, Berkowitz GS, Wolff MS, Yehuda R. Psychological trauma associated with the World Trade Center attacks and its effect on pregnancy outcome. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:334-341, 2005.

 

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