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The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution
- A. Cohen, H. Ross Anderson, +8 authors K. Smith
- Medicine
- Journal of toxicology and environmental health…
- 1 July 2005
As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was estimated in terms of deaths… Expand
Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children
BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young children, which… Expand
An official American Thoracic Society public policy statement: Novel risk factors and the global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- M. Eisner, N. Anthonisen, +6 authors J. Balmes
- Medicine
- American journal of respiratory and critical care…
- 1 September 2010
RATIONALE
Although cigarette smoking is the most important cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a substantial proportion of COPD cases cannot be explained by smoking alone.
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Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study.
- M. Arnold, N. Pandeya, +9 authors I. Soerjomataram
- Medicine
- The Lancet. Oncology
- 2015
BACKGROUND
High body-mass index (BMI; defined as 25 kg/m(2) or greater) is associated with increased risk of cancer. To inform public health policy and future research, we estimated the global burden… Expand
Validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire to assess dietary intake of women living in Mexico City.
- M. Hernández-Ávila, I. Romieu, S. Parra, J. Hernandez-Avila, H. Madrigal, Wc Willett
- Medicine
- Salud publica de Mexico
- 5 March 1998
OBJECTIVE
To assess the reproducibility and validity of a 116 item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), designed to assess the relation between dietary intake and chronic diseases.… Expand
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic…
- M. Forouzanfar, Lily T Alexander, +718 authors C. Murray
- Medicine
- BDJ
- 2015
'The challenge for governments and the health development community more broadly is to heed this knowledge about the comparative effect of health risks...'
Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking
- R. Joehanes, A. Just, +80 authors S. London
- Biology, Medicine
- Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics
- 1 October 2016
Background—DNA methylation leaves a long-term signature of smoking exposure and is one potential mechanism by which tobacco exposure predisposes to adverse health outcomes, such as cancers,… Expand
International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality: the 'ISOTHURM' project.
- A. Mcmichael, P. Wilkinson, +14 authors B. Nikiforov
- Geography, Medicine
- International journal of epidemiology
- 1 October 2008
BACKGROUND
This study describes heat- and cold-related mortality in 12 urban populations in low- and middle-income countries, thereby extending knowledge of how diverse populations, in non-OECD… Expand
De novo rates and selection of large copy number variation.
- A. Itsara, H. Wu, +4 authors E. Eichler
- Biology, Medicine
- Genome research
- 1 November 2010
While copy number variation (CNV) is an active area of research, de novo mutation rates within human populations are not well characterized. By focusing on large (>100 kbp) events, we estimate the… Expand
Dietary polyphenol intake in Europe: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study
- Raúl Zamora-Ros, V. Knaze, +42 authors A. Scalbert
- Medicine
- European Journal of Nutrition
- 1 June 2016
AbstractBackground/Objectives
Polyphenols are plant secondary metabolites with a large variability in their chemical structure and dietary occurrence that have been associated with some protective… Expand